Reconstruction, Critical Accommodation or Business as Usual? Challenges of Criticisms of the World Religions Paradigm to the Design of Teaching Programmes in the Study of Religions

This article discusses the challenge of criticisms of the world religions paradigm to the design of teaching programmes in the academic Study of Religions, in general and with a particular focus on didactics-related courses as part of teacher training programmes. It uses the design of a particular B...

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Auteur principal: Alberts, Wanda (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2017
Dans: Method & theory in the study of religion
Année: 2017, Volume: 29, Numéro: 4/5, Pages: 443-458
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Grandes religions / Paradigme / Science des religions / Programme scolaire / Formation des enseignants / Enseignement de la religion
Classifications IxTheo:AA Sciences des religions
AH Pédagogie religieuse
BG Grandes religions
Sujets non-standardisés:B World Religions Paradigm Study of Religions teaching programmes religious education teacher training EASR Working Group on Religion in Public Education
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Résumé:This article discusses the challenge of criticisms of the world religions paradigm to the design of teaching programmes in the academic Study of Religions, in general and with a particular focus on didactics-related courses as part of teacher training programmes. It uses the design of a particular Bachelor programme at a German university as an example for the general challenge of teaching about religion in an emancipatory framework that critically reflects its own presuppositions, both at university and school levels. Taking seriously recent criticisms of the world religions paradigm, it is argued, involves a shift of focus from the communication of supposedly given knowledge about religions to the communication of critical competences in analysing different types of discourse about religion, religions or “world religions.”
ISSN:1570-0682
Contient:In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341404