scholarly journals Pluralizm religijny wyzwaniem dla wczesnej edukacji

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Aniela Różańska
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Religious Dimension

In the article the question of religious pluralism is presented. The author gives the characteristics of this concept, which has changed its meaning over the recent years. The author brings into light some contemporary ways of perception of the religious pluralism and controversies they result in. The concept of inclusive pluralism by Jacques Dupuis has been recommended by the author as a model of religious pluralism which enables the opening of religious education on the inter-religious dimension. A proper understanding of religious pluralism plays an important role in forming an open religious identity which is one of the key tasks in education including early education.

Religious Education Between the Traditions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eboo Patel ◽  
Noah Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Interfaith Education

This chapter addresses how the continuity of individual and communal religious identity can be preserved in a modern context characterized by a rapid rise in religious diversity and a concomitant decline in traditional religious association. The chapter discusses various postures that religious communities can take in such a context. The authors advocate an intentional and engaged religious pluralism, achieved through “interfaith education.” This concept is defined and parsed into three activities in which religious communities should engage: developing a theology of interfaith cooperation, nurturing appreciative knowledge of shared values, and engaging in relationship-building activities. The chapter concludes with a brief consideration of how North American seminaries have been on the vanguard of adopting interfaith—sometimes referred to as multifaith or inter-religious—education.

PERANAN PEREMPUAN DALAM MEMBINA KESADARAN BERAGAMA ANAK

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-104
Author(s):  
Nursyam Nursyam
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
First Person ◽  
Good Care ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Way ◽  
At Home

Children are a gift from Allah SWT that is always expected by every family. However, not everyone (parents) can take good care of their children according to what is commanded by Allah through religious teachings. For various reasons and reasons, parents no longer pay attention to children's religious education. In the end, the negative impact will be felt by parents even more so for their own children. To be able to form a religious awareness of children, the mother as the first person known to the child, then the mother needs to provide an understanding of the religious dimension of children is important, the child is essentially a mandate from Allah SWT that must be grateful, and we as Muslims must carry out the mandate with good and right. The way to be grateful for the gift of God in the form of children is through caring for, caring for, and educating and coaching the characters properly and correctly, so that they will not become weak children, both physically and mentally, and weak in faith and weak in their worldly lives. The aim of education is to be a perfect Muslim, who has faith and fear Allah. Mother as a parent is the first primary educator for children, before the child knows the outside world, first the child knows the mother and after that his father is the closest person to the child. As for women's efforts in fostering religious awareness as follows: to destroy personality, to form good habits , forming civilizations in the Muslim world and helping to encourage them to encourage things that lead to obedience to God and educate them with different ways of worship. Like prayer, recitation, prayer at home and at school.

Public Theology as Religious Practice: Anglican Mission and Interreligious Encounter

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-282
Author(s):  
William L. Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Public Theology

The concept of a public theology must balance emphasis on Christianity's theological grounding with recognition of religious pluralism. Where Christians are in the minority, interreligious encounter frames public presence. This article argues that the basis of both faithful religious identity and substantive encounter with non-Christian traditions lies in forms of religious practice. The point is illustrated with reference to the Anglican encounter with Islam. In Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century, the careers of Temple Gairdner and Constance Padwick opened an emphasis upon prayer as a basis for appreciative encounter. Informed by this example, Kenneth Cragg developed a basis for Christian-Muslim relations. He articulated a Christian public theology that is both faithful and constructive in pluralist settings. Following Gairdner and Padwick, Cragg featured matters of practice as the basis for understanding.

Interculturation: Exploring Changing Religious, Cultural, and Faith Identities in an African Context

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Grenham
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
African Context ◽  
Reign Of God ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
Theological Concept ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Inculturation, as a theological concept, needs more understanding. An improved understanding suggests invoking the term interculturation to describe the dialogical process between Christian religion and other cultures with diverse religious worldviews. This article suggests that evangelisation and educating in faith encompasses a mutual reciprocal partnership between religious and non-religious cultures in order that the gospel can transform them to reveal God's vision for humankind. This vision is manifested for Christians in the Reign of God. The Turkana nomads of Kenya are a case study in which an exploration of religious interculturation takes place to effect significant changes in Christian and Turkana religious identity. The gospel is proclaimed through dialogue and witness that expresses itself through appropriate cultural materials that have the capacity for transcending the particularity of cultures. The article concludes with some reflections on the implications of interculturation for worldwide religious education.

RELIGIOUS IDENTITY FORMATION: AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Vermeer ◽  
Johannes van der Ven
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Guided Learning ◽  
Educational Task

Starting from the current debate regarding the aim of religious education, the article states this aim in terms of religious identity formation. With the help of Ricoeur’s narrative approach to identity formation, the process of religious identity formation is, first of all, described as a hermeneutic task. Next, the process of religious identity formation is described as an educational task. The authors posit that the formation of a religious identity calls for a specific educational approach: i.e., action learning. Subsequently, the value of this specific educational approach is demonstrated by using it to re-evaluate the effects of a religious education curriculum concerning the problem of theodicy. The analysis shows that the limited effects of this curriculum are due to a predominance of guided learning as opposed to action learning. This finding supports the main thesis of this article, that the formation of a religious identity calls for action learning as an alternative to guided learning.

scholarly journals The Power of a Controversial Issue; The Developmental Power of ‘Disruptive Moments’ for Both—Teachers and Students

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Ina ter Avest
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory

In Islamic primary education the subject of Islamic Religious Education (IRE) has a prominent place in the curriculum. In knowledge transfer and in behaving as a ‘good muslim’, aspects can be in conflict with generally accepted knowledge or customs in the Netherlands. The focus is on the power of a controversial issue (either or not wearing a head scarf) as a ‘disruptive moment’, stimulating pupils’ religious identity development. An example of recently developed teaching material illustrates the actual didactical approach regarding such a controversial issue. For a contextual understanding we start with a sketch of the Dutch educational system, and the position of Islamic education and its Islamic Religious Education (IRE) therein. In the second paragraph we describe the dialogical self theory (DST). DST’s relational understanding of a child’s development, including the developments regarding keeping a secret. In the third paragraph the case study is described, followed in the fourth paragraph by the introduction of Islamic teaching material and its way of approaching the controversial issue of the case study. We conclude our contribution with a discussion and recommendations for the development of teachers’ competencies in responding to controversial issues.

scholarly journals Religious Freedom, National Identity, and the Polish Catholic Church: Converging Visions of Nation and God

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyriaki Topidi
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church

In the most common representations of the Polish people, the Catholic Church is not simply considered as a part of the Polish nation; it is the Polish nation. This is reflected in the constitutional relationship of the Church and the State, in the form of a concordat. Yet, despite a formally constitutionally warranted separation, the Church retains heavy weight in the legal and political debates to the point that currently, in a time of resurgence of populism across the globe, a number of right-wing parties adopt positions based on those of the Church, establishing a dangerous nexus between religion and nationalism. The aim of the present contribution is to map this unique process within Eastern Europe in order to show how, in the case of Poland, religious identity and the exercise of religious freedoms, despite its fragmented nature at the individual level of believers, has acquired the features of an autonomous field of intervention, with clear consequences on morality and the exercise of politics, as well as religious rights and freedoms of citizens. Using the example of religious education in public schools, the article will demonstrate the complex paths of the process of secularization in the light of the historical dynamics of state, nation, and Church in Poland. In fact, it will argue that we are gradually moving away from the triumph of secularism as a “teleological theory of religious development” but firmly entering the perilous territory of religious belief as a “traditional carrier of national identity.” Tasked with the mission by Pope John Paul II to “restore Europe for Christianity,” upon joining the EU in 2004 and based on the premise that “majorities have rights too,” this shift implies new forms of religious nationalism for Poland that significantly affect religious freedom by creating dichotomies between “Us” and “Others.” It also offers, similarly to other Eastern European countries, a nuanced interpretation of religious equality that assumes the role of law as limited to protecting religions recognized by reference to established traditions, ignoring the realities of pluralized religious markets.

American Jews and the Construction of Israel’s Jewish Identity

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-201
Author(s):  
Yossi Shain
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Public Campaign

In 1999, on the eve of the Jewish New Year, members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements funded a public campaign on Israel’s city billboards and in the Israeli media, calling on secular Israelis to experience their religious identity afresh. In a backlash against the monopoly and coercion exercised by religious orthodoxy—which has led many Israelis to shed their religious identities to an extent that goes beyond what their socialization by secular Zionism urged—the campaign called upon Israelis to embrace religious pluralism under the slogan “there is more than one way to be a Jew.” Financed by a grant from a Jewish family foundation in San Francisco, this campaign met with a harsh and somewhat violent response from the Israeli ultra-Orthodox sector. A leading ultra-Orthodox figure stated, “Ifthis situation continues, we will have a cultural war here, the likes of which we have not seen in a hundred years” (Sontag).

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