The Place and Conditions for Democratic Education in Interreligious Encounters

Liljestrand, Johan

doi:10.1080/00344087.2017.1384970

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“…Second, religion is-within the context of the IED-constructed in a very specific way that can be described as 'school religion'. The notion of 'school religion' is controversially debated among religious educators (see : Liljestrand 2018). The data from the Vienna Project illustrate that most constructions of religion documented within the context of the project followed the rationale of presentation and assessment.…”

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Ethics Education in the Context of an Interreligious Encounter Day (IED): Empirical Research Results from Austria

Lehmann

2024

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This article adds an empirical contribution to international discussions on interreligious education, taking the point of view of the academic study of religion. It presents results from a Viennese research project that used a participant observation design to analyze one of the more recent pedagogical formats to deal with religious plurality at school—the so-called Interreligious Encounter Day (IED). More precisely this article focuses on the role of Ethics Education (EE) within the context of a specific IED that was organized in 2019. Along those lines, it highlights the ambiguity of IED practices at a school by presenting a threefold argument: first, the article makes the point that the IED opened up a space to explicitly make religion a subject of discussion at school. Second, it argues that—within the context of the IED—religion is constructed in a specific way that can be described as ‘school religion’. Third, it proposes that the observed IED format has the tendency to prioritize specific individual constructions of religion—especially those prompted by theology.

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