Religious Literacy, Law and History (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on European Pluralist Societies
Redaktion: Melloni, Alberto; Cadeddu, Francesca

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines religious illiteracy in Europe. It seeks to understand its effects on the social and political milieu through the framing of historical, institutional, religious, social, juridical and educational conditions within which it arises.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351398671
• Artikelnr.: 54790516

Autorenporträt

Alberto Melloni is a Full Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, director of the Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII in Bologna and chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace at the University of Bologna. He is principal investigator for the European Infraia ReIReS project headed by the Fondazione and coordinator of the Resilience research infrastructure project, and he spearheaded the establishment of the European Academy of Religion. Francesca Cadeddu is Research Fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and at the Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII in Bologna. She is affiliated to the Faiths and Civil Society Unit at Goldsmiths University of London and serves as secretary general of the European Academy of Religion. She works on the history of American Catholicism in the twentieth century and on religious literacy in Italy and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: One Literacy, More Literacies?
1. European Religious Illiteracy: The Historical Framework of a Removed Agenda
2. Religious Literacy in Modern Europe
3. Different Illiteracies for Different Countries: Are There No Data for Religious Illiteracy?
4. Religious Rights, Educational Duties?
Part II: Understanding Illiteracies, Debating Disciplines?
5. The Ethics of the Torah Compared to Neopaganism
6. Theological Roots of Religious Illiteracy
7. Philosophical Implications of Religious Illiteracy
8. Is Religious Illiteracy a Private or a Public Issue?
9. Secularism and Religious Literacy
10. Is 'Religious' Violence Really Religious?
11. European Law and the Veil: Muslim Women from Victims to Emblems of the Enemy
Part III: Building Literacy, Shaping Alphabets
12. Why Study Religions in Publicly Funded Schools?
13. Teaching Faith
14. The Role of the Media in the Development of Religious Illiteracy
Part IV: Views and Experiences
15. The Attitude of the Media to Religion
16. A Jewish Educational Approach to Religious Pluralism
17. Positions and Actions in the European Islam