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Education About Religions and Worldviews: Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies
Anna Halafoff (Editor), Elisabeth Arweck (Editor), Donald L. Boisvert (Editor) (Author)
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Education About Religions and Worldviews: Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies - Anna Halafoff (Editor), Elisabeth Arweck (Editor), Donald L. Boisvert (Editor)
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Synopsis "Education About Religions and Worldviews: Promoting Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding in Secular Societies"
This volume presents the findings of a number of empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) conducted in the Western societies of Britain, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Educational programmes about diverse religions and worldviews began to be investigated and implemented as strategies to encourage interreligious understanding and social cohesion, particularly following the 2005 London bombings when a fear of youth radicalisation and home-grown terrorism became prevalent. In addition, as a growing number of people in Western societies, and young people especially, declare themselves to have no religious affiliation, state actors are currently grappling with the reality that we are living in increasingly multifaith and non-religious societies and government education systems have become places of contestation as a result of these changes. This volume examines ERW research and policies in a number of diverse places in the hope of identifying common themes, overlapping insights and best practices that can inform research and policy for religious literacy and interreligious understanding in other contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.
