A Response to Wolfart’s “Religious Literacy”: Some Considerations and Reservations
This text addresses three related aspects of Wolfart’s article on religious literacy: the critique of assumptions on the outcome of increased religious literacy, questions about the purpose of religious education, and the suggestion that religious studies are ex-theological. Although the predictabil...
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| 语言: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2022, 卷: 34, 发布: 5, Pages: 453-464 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
宗教
/ 知识
/ 宗教教育
/ 宗教学
/ 神学家
/ 教育理念
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AH Religious education |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Education
B Educational Philosophy B ex-theology B Gert J.J. Biesta B Religious Literacy B 注释 |
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| 总结: | This text addresses three related aspects of Wolfart’s article on religious literacy: the critique of assumptions on the outcome of increased religious literacy, questions about the purpose of religious education, and the suggestion that religious studies are ex-theological. Although the predictability of the results of certain classroom activities presents a fundamental problem, I argue that the tentative and generic abilities highlighted in the religious literacy discourse may function as a starting point to elaborate on a better definition of religious literacy in religious studies. Moreover, based on Biesta’s educational philosophy, I argue that the religious literacy discourse is about learnification in rhetorical disguise as value-based education. Instead, I suggest that the purpose of religious education should be (re)considered from Biesta’s three dimensions of qualification, socialization, and subjectification. Finally, I problematize Wolfart’s suggestion that religious studies are ex-theological and conclude that, although there are a theological dimension and a genealogy to be observed in the religious literacy discourse, other kinds of scholarly aspects are also worth exploring further. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Reference: | Kommentar zu "‘Religious Literacy’: Some Considerations and Reservations (2022)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-bja10079 |