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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 29, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 443-458 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
World religion
/ Paradigm
/ Science of Religion
/ Curriculum
/ Teacher training
/ Religious instruction
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AH Religious education BG World religions |
| Further subjects: | 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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| Summary: | 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.” |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Contains: | In: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341404 |