Crossings and crosses : borders, educations, and religions in Northern Europe / edited by Jenny Berglund, Thomas Lundén, and Peter Strandbrink.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berglund, Jenny, editor.

Lundén, Thomas, editor.

Strandbrink, Peter, editor.

Series:

Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; Volume 63.

Religion and Society, 1437-5370 ; Volume 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--Europe, Northern.

Religion and politics.

Religious education--Europe, Northern.

Religious education.

Europe, Northern--Religion.

Europe, Northern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dealing with different regions and cases, the contributions in this volume address and critically explore the theme of borders, educations, and religions in northern Europe. As shown in different ways, and contrary to popular ideas, there seems to be little reason to believe that religious and civic identity formation through public education is becoming less parochial and more culturally open. Even where state borders are porous, where commerce, culture, and trade as well as associative, personal, and social life display stronger liminal traits, normative education remains surprisingly national. This situation is remarkable and goes against the grain of current notions of both accelerating globalisation and a European regional renaissance. The book also takes issue with the foundational tenet that liberal democracies are by definition uninvolved in matters concerning faith and belief. Instead, an implied conclusion is that secular liberal democracy is less than secular and liberal - at least in education, which is a major arena for political-cultural-ethical socialisation, as it aims to confer worldviews and frameworks of identity on young people who will eventually become full citizens and bearers/sharers of prevailing normative communities.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface. Crossings and crosses – teaching religion in border communities

Table of Contents

Introduction: On crossings and crosses

The Russian Orthodox Church, its domains and borders

Intertwining identities: The politics of language and nationality in the Estonian-Russian borderlands

Multireligious and multiethnic public schooling in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland

Visible conflicts on invisible borders: Religious antagonisms in the eastern borderland of Poland

Shifting borders in religious education in Estonia

Religious education on the borders

Religion in contemporary public education in Russia

Religious education in the European context

Unpacking postnormativity in religious and civic education: Coming to an early end?

Society, proximity, and education on the border

The spatiality of religion

Religious education (RE) in other kinds of bordertowns: Denmark as an extreme and exemplary case

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614519287

1614519285

9781614516552

1614516553

OCLC:

912323211