Taking spiritual experiences seriously in the religious education classroom: a transrational approach

Spiritual experiences are common across religious and non-religious faiths, but schoolchildren are often afraid to share these because they fear ridicule from peers who are convinced religion is irrational. The need to speak about spirituality in religious education is increasingly recognised. Signp...

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Auteurs: Rodriguez, Mira Cataya (Auteur) ; Stokke, Christian (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Taylor & Francis [2019]
Dans: International journal of children's spirituality
Année: 2019, Volume: 24, Numéro: 3, Pages: 243-259
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
AD Sociologie des religions
AG Vie religieuse
AH Pédagogie religieuse
CB Spiritualité chrétienne
RF Pédagogie religieuse
Sujets non-standardisés:B Education
B spiritual experiences
B transrational paradigm
B intercultural understanding
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Résumé:Spiritual experiences are common across religious and non-religious faiths, but schoolchildren are often afraid to share these because they fear ridicule from peers who are convinced religion is irrational. The need to speak about spirituality in religious education is increasingly recognised. Signposts suggests that intercultural understanding implies recognising religious students' perception of reality and helping others understand it. Religious education in Norway now includes exploration of existential questions as a core element, and in England, making sense of religious, spiritual and mystical experiences has been suggested as a big idea. In this paper, we discuss how the dualistic paradigm of modern science makes it difficult to take spirituality seriously as lived experience and empirical phenomenon. Instead we suggest a transrational approach to explore our multidimensional reality in an intercultural dialogue where insiders and outsiders learn from each other. We also explore examples of transrational research on spiritual phenomena.
ISSN:1469-8455
Contient:Enthalten in: International journal of children's spirituality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2019.1646221