RT Article
T1 Religious education and religious choice
JF Journal of beliefs and values
VO 36
IS 1
SP 31
OP 39
A1 Hand, Michael
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1571314830
AB According to the "religious choice case" for compulsory religious education, pupils have a right to be made aware of the religious and irreligious paths open to them and equipped with the wherewithal to choose between them. A familiar objection to this argument is that the idea of religious choice reduces religion to a matter of taste. I argue, first, that this familiar objection fails and, second, that we nevertheless have good reason to reject the religious choice case. Religious and irreligious views have a core cognitive dimension that makes it inappropriate to talk of choosing between them. What I have elsewhere called the "possibility-of-truth case" remains the strongest justification for compulsory religious education.
K1 doxastic voluntarism
K1 leap of faith
K1 Personal Autonomy
K1 Religious Belief
K1 religious choice
K1 Religious Education
DO 10.1080/13617672.2015.1013817