Bad Religion as False Religion: An Empirical Study of UK Religious Education Teachers’ Essentialist Religious Discourse
| Autor: | Jo Pearce, Graeme Nixon, David Raymond Smith |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Essentialism Cultural discourse religion and schools schools 0603 philosophy ethics and religion lcsh:Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Empirical research essentialism 050602 political science & public administration Sociology Religious Education teacher beliefs education 060303 religions & theology Conceptualization UK schools 05 social sciences Religious studies 06 humanities and the arts 0506 political science Epistemology religion Religious education religious education Religious literacy |
| Zdroj: | Religions Volume 9 Issue 11 Smith, D R, Nixon, G & Pearce, J 2018, ' Bad religion as false religion : An empirical study of UK Religious Education teachers’ essentialist religious discourse ', Religions, vol. 9, no. 11 . https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9110361 Religions, Vol 9, Iss 11, p 361 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rel9110361 |
| Popis: | We argue that there is a well-intentioned&mdash yet mistaken&mdash definitional turn within contemporary cultural discourse in which &lsquo true&rsquo religion, being essentially loving and peaceful, is distinguished from &lsquo false&rsquo religion. Concerned with the possibility that this discourse might be prevalent in school Religious Education (RE), we surveyed practicing RE teachers within the United Kingdom (UK) on their beliefs about religion. We wanted to see how far the surveyed teachers evidenced a strand of contemporary cultural discourse which, we argue, conceptualizes bad religion as false religion. Responses from 465 teachers to our online survey indicate that many RE teachers understand religion(s) as essentially benign or pro-social&mdash and present it/them as such in the classroom. We argue that RE can only foster religious literacy if religions are presented as multifarious, complex, social phenomena. This cannot be predicated upon an essentialist conceptualization of harmful religion as false religion, which is inimical to understanding religion in the world today&mdash as in times past. We conclude that this conceptualization is a barrier to UK RE meeting both its extrinsic purpose to educate, and one of its intrinsic purposes to foster tolerance and pro-social attitudes. |
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