Religious Education Influencing Students' Attitudes: A Threat to Freedom?

Schihalejev, Olga

doi:10.1080/15507394.2013.745366

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“…Religious tolerance in Remaja Parakan, Temanggung elementary school is well-implemented, leading to a more inclusive religious attitude among students and reducing conflict in the name of religion (Fadhli & Sirait, 2019). Religious education can help students develop more open minds, with religious and worldviews, but promoting effective tolerance requires knowledge of religions, a way of thinking, and with worldviews interact with representatives of religions (Schihalejev, 2013). They suggest that values of religious tolerance in early childhood education are taught through a combination of learning and practice rather than explicitly teaching tolerance among religious students (Pribadi, 2023).…”

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Demographics and Religious Tolerance Among Youth: Moderating Role of Education

Akram,

Ain

2024

Pak. J. Psychol. Res

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In this religiously diverse world, for a secure and conflict-free society, religious tolerance is an important phenomenon to prevail. Since youth of a nation serves as a powerful weapon to build a prosperous and peaceful society. The present research work attempted to explore the role of demographic characteristics of youth of Pakistan in religious tolerance. A cross-sectional survey was conducted, and data was collected from (N = 1651) young adults with range 18-35 years with the mean of 22.60 including boys (n = 667) and girls (n = 984) of four different cities of Pakistan. A multistage stratified sampling technique was used to collect data. Multiple hierarchical regression analysis indicated the significant and strong roles of attachment to sects and education in determining the religious tolerance of youth. The findings of the present study are helpful for the stakeholders to formulate policies to enhance the religious tolerance and minimize the negative impact of attachment to sect through education which may lead towards a tolerant environment. These findings can be very insightful for psychologists, sociologists, and religious scholars. The above-mentioned stakeholders can arrange seminars, and workshops to highlight the important factors that could lead to religious tolerance.

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Demographics and Religious Tolerance Among Youth: Moderating Role of Education

Akram,

Ain

2024

Pak. J. Psychol. Res

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“…Estonia has participated in several international studies which examine how students evaluate knowledge about and dispositions towards religions they acquire from or develop through formal school education. Compared to their peers from other European countries, Estonian students disagree more that formal education provides them with knowledge about religions and teaches them to consider people with different worldviews (Kallioniemi et al 2018;Schihalejev 2013). Considering both Estonian religious diversity and the fuzzy concept of religious phenomena, it is essential to address religious themes more explicitly than they are addressed in the current curricula.…”

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Religious Literacy in National Curricula of Estonia

Sooniste

Schihalejev

2022

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Religious literacy may be seen as a prerequisite for religious freedom. This article analyzes how the development of religious literacy is supported in the curricula of Estonian primary and secondary schools and the extent to which these schools guarantee religious freedom. We assume that developing religious literacy is not limited to the lessons of Religious Education but can also be achieved in schools in which Religious Education is not taught. We analyze the national curricula for both basic and upper secondary schools to understand how religious literacy is represented, whether implicitly or explicitly. We are particularly interested in how the competencies of religious literacy are supported in the curricula and how freedom of religion is ensured in state-funded schools. The texts are analyzed according to the core curriculum analysis method and the religious literacy model, which identifies four stages in the development of religious literacy: examining religion as a category, engaging with a disposition towards religions, building up relevant knowledge, and promoting skills to interact well in multicultural society. This analysis shows that the dominant discourse related to religious literacy in the curricula focuses on social skills for future citizens, but religious literacy itself, a vital skill for operating in the modern multicultural world, is scarcely mentioned. Instead, it is present primarily as an implicit concept, and religion is portrayed as distant both in time and in space. Thus, this approach to education contributes insufficiently to the freedom of religion needed in a contemporary multicultural society.

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Silent Religious Minorities in Schools in Estonia

Schihalejev

Ringvee

2017

Religion and Human Rights

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Religious Education Influencing Students' Attitudes: A Threat to Freedom?

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Demographics and Religious Tolerance Among Youth: Moderating Role of Education

Demographics and Religious Tolerance Among Youth: Moderating Role of Education

Religious Literacy in National Curricula of Estonia

Silent Religious Minorities in Schools in Estonia

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