Religious individualization: new challenges to education for tolerance

The focus of this article is on the relationship between tolerance and individualized religion as the most common type of adolescent religion in many western countries. Drawing on a number of qualitative studies conducted by the author with children and adolescents in Germany, as well as on other la...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:  
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schweitzer, Friedrich 1954- (Auteur)
Type de support: Numérique/imprimé Article
Langue:Anglais
Vérifier la disponibilité: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
En cours de chargement...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Publié: Routledge 2007
Dans: British journal of religious education
Année: 2007, Volume: 29, Numéro: 1, Pages: 89-100
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Individualisation / Pluralisme religieux / Tolérance / Éducation religieuse
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses
RF Pédagogie religieuse
Accès en ligne: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
Description
Résumé:The focus of this article is on the relationship between tolerance and individualized religion as the most common type of adolescent religion in many western countries. Drawing on a number of qualitative studies conducted by the author with children and adolescents in Germany, as well as on other larger studies conducted by others, the author identifies a number of problem areas, for example, in Christian adolescents’ views of Islam, and discusses the consequences of individualized religion for tolerance education. Different models of religious education in Germany and other European countries are considered. Special emphasis is given to the following question: if and under what conditions can religion and religious education become sources of tolerance? The author suggests that the model of co‐operative dialogical religious education has the potential to support religious identities and, at the same time, to foster dialogical openness.
ISSN:0141-6200
Contient:In: British journal of religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/01416200601037551