Should religious studies be part of the compulsory state school curriculum?

Cush, Denise

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“…The importance of contextualising RE within religious life is elided with a requirement to hold a religious belief; different disciplinary approaches in the study of religion represented by theology and religious studies are conflated with hierarchies of meaning that are reductive of religious life per se and socio-cultural contexts and national boundaries polarised in a broad sweep of the history of the Western world. This propensity for elision, conflation and polarisation jeopardises the coherence of the book as a whole, when significant claims that RE in any society will be a bellwether for the whole process of education and its life and traditions (Copley 2007) or that it is possible to achieve agreement on aims at the level of practice (Cush 2007) are summarily dismissed. Determining the relationship between RE and religious life is crucial to Gearon's thesis concerning religion in education.…”

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MasterClass in religious education: transforming teaching and learning

Baumfield¹

2013

British Journal of Religious Education

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MasterClass in religious education: transforming teaching and learning

Baumfield¹

2013

British Journal of Religious Education

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“…Cush 2007). Therefore, the subject should be organized "in an objective, critical and pluralistic manner."…”

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The Future of Religious Education on the Flemish School Curriculum: A Plea for Integrative Religious Education for All

Franken

Loobuyck

2013

Religious Education

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“…Sistem pendidikan agama bertujuan untuk menanamkan dan memperteguh keyakinan terhadap agama untuk memperkuat identitas bangsa. 24 Pemerintah Indonesia mengembangkan sistem pendidikan agama confessional. Secara historis, sistem pendidikan agama confessional bukanlah sistem yang baru karena pernah diberlakukan pada masa penjajahan Portugis dan Belanda.…”

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Akar Pluralisme dalam pendidikan Muhammadiyah

Mu'ti

2016

AIIJIS

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This paper discusses the nature of Muhammadiyah educational institutions and relates it to the diverse socio-religious background of Indonesian society. Renowned as the largest modernist Islamic movement in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, which promotes the purity of Islam, Muhammadiyah in fact has been faced with notions of religious and cultural pluralism, and therefore, it has to seeks ways of how to formulate Islam in plural society. This article is a theoretical exposition of Muhammadiyah and its encounters with religious pluralism, and how Muhammadiyah translates notions of pluralism into praxis in its educational institutions. This paper argues that educational institutions of Muhammadiyah have widened path for deepening inter-religious dialogue and interaction in the diversity of Indoensian society.Keywords: religious pluralism, education, da'wa, ideology, Muhammadiyah ABSTRAK Artikel ini mengkaji karakteristik lembaga pendidikan Muhammadiyah dan mengaitkannya dengan keragaman latarbelakang sosial-keagamaan masyarakat Indonesia. Dikenal sebagai gerakan Islam modernis di Indoensia dan di Asia Tenggara, yang mempromosikan kemurnian ajaran islam, Muhammadiyah nampaknya harus berhadapajn dengan keanekaragaman agama dan budaya dan untuk itu, Muhammadiyah mencoba mencari jalan bagaimana menerjemahkan islam dalam masyarakat plural. Tulisan ini merupakan kajian teoretis tentang Muhammadiyah dan interaksinya dengan masalah pluralisme agama, serta bagaimana Muhammadiyah menerjemahkan gagasan pluralisme agama ke dalam praksis di bidnag pendidikan. Artikel ini berpendapat bahwa lembaga pendidikan Muhammadiyah telah membuka jalan yang luas untuk hubungan dan dialog antar agama.

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Should religious studies be part of the compulsory state school curriculum?

Cited by 27 publications

References 7 publications

MasterClass in religious education: transforming teaching and learning

MasterClass in religious education: transforming teaching and learning

The Future of Religious Education on the Flemish School Curriculum: A Plea for Integrative Religious Education for All

Akar Pluralisme dalam pendidikan Muhammadiyah

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