Contextual Religious Education and the Actuality of Religions

Autor/in	Wright, Andrew
Titel	Contextual Religious Education and the Actuality of Religions
Quelle	In: British Journal of Religious Education, 30 (2008) 1, S.3-12 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-6200
Schlagwörter	Context Effect; Religious Education; Children; Realism; Beliefs; Religion; Constructivism (Learning) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Realismus; Belief; Glaube
Abstract	Contextual religious educators tend to view discrete religious traditions as artificially constructed systems disconnected from the ordinary experiences of children. This article sets out the case for the continued representation of religions as substantial social facts in religious education classrooms. Accepting Robert Jackson's critique of essentialist readings of religion, it argues that the most appropriate alternative is not the nominal reduction of discrete religious traditions to the atomistic level of the individual spiritual lives of adherents, but a realistic identification of such traditions as actual socio-cultural realities. It suggests two criteria for such identification: the collective intentionality of adherents and the presence of prototypical features within their lifeworlds. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10