Conflicting Rights? Dutch-Turkish Muslim Parents Fostering a Religiously Coloured Agency

Abstract

This article is an in-depth exploration of the roles of Dutch-Turkish Muslim parents in facilitating their children’s freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and the rights of these parents to provide their children with religious direction. A limited number of four semi-structured, in-depth interviews was conducted, with a total of six Dutch-Turkish Muslim parents. The interview data were analysed by both inductive and deductive analysis, so-called abductive analysis. Instead of fostering child agency by promoting their children’s individual choice, the parents seek to promote a religiously coloured agency. The findings indicate five ways the parents integrate a religious direction while fostering the child’s agency.

Young Educators’ Voices on Interfaith Dialogue and Religious Diversity in Leisure Time Education: Towards an Effective Policy Framework and Training

“…For instance, a qualitative contribution on adult education that analyzes a group of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim adults located in the southeastern United States (Pope 2019), or the analysis of the role of young people in interfaith dialogue in Greater Manila (Cornelio and Salera 2012). With regards to informal education, we should highlight some analysis on parenting and the role of families in the education of religiosity and interfaith dialogue (Pusztai and Fényes 2022;Aantjes 2022). References to leisure time education in both non-formal and informal education are non-existent.…”