European and Danish Religious Education: Human Rights, the Secular State, andRethinking Religious Education and Plurality

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Secular State

Recontextualization of Islamic Peace Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-202
Author(s):  
Siti Rohmah ◽  
M. Syukri Ismail ◽  
Moh. Anas Kholish ◽  
Mona Novita
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Interreligious Education

Some circles suggest that the phenomenon of intolerance and religious conflict in Indonesia will be reduced by a religious education model dominated by a mono-religious approach. The approach that focuses on deepening the knowledge of all religions is considered to be the cause of the persistence of interfaith stigma and prejudice. However, there are objections from various circles to the concept and application of interreligious education which requires close dialogue and interaction, an appreciative attitude, and openness to adherents of other religions. This article argues that the development of a peaceful and diverse mono-religious education approach is possible. This study employs Mohammed Abu-Nimer's theory as an alternative model of Islamic peace education that is strategic, participatory and practical; it focuses on his experience in conflict areas and in the Islamic education environment, which is often stigmatized conservatively in the Middle East and Africa. This study confirms that monoreligious education provides room for peace education that builds pedagogy of tolerance, diversity and human rights.

Secular State and the ‘Religious Left’: Navayana Buddhism and Dr Ambedkar’s Vision for the Future of Democracy in South Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 239448112199595
Author(s):  
Kalinga Tudor Silva
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
European Origin ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Religious Left ◽  
Secular State

In the light of ongoing debates about secular state and religious right in India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, this article examines the intellectual contribution of Dr B. R. Ambedkar towards sustaining democracy in South Asia. His critical contributions included non-violent mobilisation of Dalits and adivasis around their human rights, identity, citizenship and religious faith. Most importantly, he argued that democratic values of equality, liberty and fraternity are not only of European origin but also have roots in South Asia, particularly within the Buddhist tradition. The article reflects on Ambedkar’s politics, social philosophy and contribution to the formation of ‘religious left’ and the process of progressive democratic change via Navayana Buddhism.

scholarly journals Human rights and children’s rights in worldview education in Finland

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Eero Salmenkivi ◽  
Tuija Kasa ◽  
Niina Putkonen ◽  
Arto Kallioniemi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Explicit Mention ◽  
Freedom Of Thought

In this article we examine the profiling of human rights and children’s rights in religious education (RE) and its secular alternative in Finland. We use the term ‘worldview education’ to describe the combination of these subjects. We analyse what kinds of human rights and ethical issues are raised in Finnish worldview education. One specific focus is the explicit mention of human rights and children’s rights in the worldview education section of the Finnish national core curriculum (2014). We conclude that the curriculum gives plenty of space to human rights and children’s rights, and that this enables one to conceive of human rights as being an overarching ethical perspective in worldview education. Nevertheless, we indicate that the organisation of worldview education in Finland has some problems when it comes to the realisation of children’s freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.

Inklusive Konfirmandenarbeit geht im Team

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-285
Author(s):  
Thomas Ebinger ◽  
Wolfhard Schweiker
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
The Church

Abstract The article discusses how the Human Rights principle of inclusion might be implemented in confirmation classes. A religious education of adolescents which doesn’t exclude people with special needs challenges the pedagogical competencies of ministers, as they have to adapt their teaching methods and contents. Moreover, the article focuses on how team work within confirmation classes can be established. What are the challenges and chances in the specific educational setting of the congregation? What alternatives are there to memorizing and reciting, that adolescents with special needs might not be capable of? What kind of team workers might be gained and educated? Finally, the authors discuss how the Church can meet these challenging needs by structural transformation and financial support.

scholarly journals Papageorgiou and Others v Greece: Exemption from a Mandatory Course in Religion and the Art of Reading between the Lines

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-360
Author(s):  
Wojciech Brzozowski
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
European Convention ◽  
European Court ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The One ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Religious education is probably one of the most attractive topics in law and religious studies – a truly bottomless pit which, every now and then, reveals new questions and new challenges. The most recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concerning this matter is the one delivered on 31 October 2019 in the case of Papageorgiou and others. The judgment only became final at the end of January 2020, under Article 44(2) of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), so as yet it has not received much scholarly attention. However, it should be expected that there will be no lack of such attention, as the judgment deserves it for at least two reasons.

scholarly journals Gender, Gays and Gain: The Sexualised Politics of Donor Aid in Malawi

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmie Chanika ◽  
John L. Lwanda ◽  
Adamson S. Muula
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rights Issue ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Secular State

Many Malawian politicians have exploited religious and cultural discourses, encouraging the discourse of the “God-fearing Malawi nation” while also acknowledging the country as a secular state. This discourse -which most recently underwent further development in the early 1980s when Christians and Muslims, funded by donor money, accelerated their evangelical drives in the context of a one-party Malawi – resonates with a patriarchal, conservative political dispensation. This paper traces the evolution of the “God-fearing nation” discourse in Malawian politics. It posits that the government used the “gay rights issue” as a strategy to disorient human rights activists and donors. Gay rights were de-linked from other civil rights, forcing a binary approach toward gay rights, which were seen by government supporters as “anti-Christian”, “anti-Malawian” concepts. The debate with donors enabled the government to claim “sovereign autonomy” and galvanise the population into an anti-aid mentality (better no aid than aid that supports homosexuality).

scholarly journals WOMEN PREACHING FOR THE SECULAR STATE: OFFICIAL FEMALE PREACHERS (BAYAN VAIZLER) IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
The Past ◽  
State Official ◽  
Politics Of Religion ◽  
Republic Of Turkey ◽  
Turkish Society ◽  
Secular State

AbstractNearly one-third of Turkey's official preaching workforce are women. Their numbers have risen considerably over the past two decades, fueled by an unforeseen feminization of higher religious education as well as the Directorate of Religious Affairs’ attempts to redress its historical gender imbalances. Created in the early Turkish Republic, the Directorate is also historically embedded in (re)defining the appropriate domains and formations of religion, and the female preachers it now employs navigate people's potent fears rooted in memories of this fraught past. In the various neighborhoods of Istanbul, these preachers attempt to overcome conservative Muslims’ cautious ambivalence toward the interpretative and disciplinary powers of a secular state as well as assertive secularists’ discomfort and suspicion over increasingly visible manifestations of religiosity. Thus, the activities of state-sponsored female preachers are inescapably intertwined with the contestation of religious domains and authority in the secular Republic of Turkey and demonstrate an intricate interplay between the politics of religion, gender, and secularism in contemporary Turkish society.

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