Lived Religion In Norwegian Pupils’ Religious Education Workbooks

Reading religion in Norwegian textbooks: are individual religions ideas or people?

“…We will restrict quotations to the section on indicators, engaging with the texts as numbers of stores of words rather than literature, however painful that choice may be! Thirdly, many recent textbook studies have been diachronic (Andreassen and Olsen 2015;Lewis 2014;Thobro 2008Thobro , 2014Haakedal 2015;Härenstam 1993). Susanne Thobro in particular has identified watersheds in the treatment of religious cartography that are valuable contributions to the genealogy of religious orientalism.…”

Encountering Worldviews: Pupil Perspectives on Integrative Worldview Education in a Finnish Secondary School Context

“…29 Lived religion can be seen to refer to the level of religious practice in everyday life. 30 This concept shifts the focus from the official dogma of 'world religions' to religiosity in the life worlds of individuals and the groups they inhabit. 31 Although religions emphasize commonalities and specific traditions in their beliefs, by using the term lived religion we focus on the heterogeneity inside religious traditions and their possible individual understandings and interpretations.…”