Educational Secularization Within Europe and Beyond : The Political Projects of Modernizing Religion Through Education Reform.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchardt, Mette, author.

Series:

Studies in the History of Education and Culture / Studien Zur Bildungs- und Kulturgeschichte Series

Studies in the History of Education and Culture / Studien Zur Bildungs- und Kulturgeschichte Series ; v.6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational change--Europe--History.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

This book examines the historical intersection of religion, education reform, and political modernization across Europe and beyond. Edited by Mette Buchardt, it features contributions from prominent scholars exploring diverse case studies from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Topics include secularization, the role of religion in shaping national and cultural identities, and the influence of education on social and political ideologies. The authors analyze how education reforms have been used as tools for state-building, moral instruction, and integration of religious and secular values in various contexts, including France, Ireland, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Soviet Ukraine, and Senegal. The book is intended for researchers, educators, and students interested in the history of education, religion, and cultural transformation. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Contents

Contributors

Reforming Religion, State and Education in the Multiple Political Secularization Projects Within, Around and Beyond “Europe”. New Impulses for Historical Research

Replacing Priests with Doctors? The Medicalization of Education in Eighteenth-Century France and the Question of Secularization

From Sacral to Profane: The Visualization of Parental and Children’s Emotions in Early Modern Europe

Secularization, the Education of the Heart, and the Modern Nation-State: The Case of Swiss Reformed Protestantism and its European Resonance

The Tension Between Religious and Secular Ethics in School Textbooks of the Italian Habsburg Dominions from Joseph II to Political Unification

Patronage, Politics and Pragmatics: The Changing Fate of the Convent School in Ireland

A Secularizing Mission? Moral Instruction in English Schools, 1890s to 1918

Taming Religion by Nation: Educational Nation-Building and the Shifting Role of Islam in the Light of Turkish Language Policies

The American University of Beirut and Religion: From Pietism to Liberal Protestantism to Secularism

Atheistic Education in the USSR. The Case of Soviet Ukraine

Reformed Christian Education as a Welfare State Tool for Fostering Democratic Citizens in Post-war Sweden, 1945–1969

A Spiritual Socialist Education: “The Problem of Culture” in Senegalese Educational Republican State Crafting Beyond French Laïcité and Soviet-Style Atheism, 1950s–1960s

The Pendulum of Secularization and De-secularization: Nationalism, State-church Relations and Religious Education in Hungary and Slovakia

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ISBN:

9783111337975

3111337979

OCLC:

1463086640