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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300490303321

Titolo

Education in Post-Conflict Transition : The Politicization of Religion in School Textbooks / / edited by Gorana Ognjenović, Jasna Jozelić

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-56605-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 316 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy, , 2731-6777

Disciplina

379.28

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Religion and sociology

World politics

Europe - Politics and government

Education and state

Politics and Religion

Sociology of Religion

Political History

European Politics

Educational Policy and Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Changing Faces Swapping Places, Oh Sister, Where Art Thou? -- 3. The Politicization of Education in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Legitimization of a Divided Society -- 4. Islamic Religious Instruction in the Context of EU Integration and Education Reform -- 5. Slovenia: Social Changes and (Adjustable) Politicization of Catholic Church -- 6. From Vrhbosna to Brussels, Catholic Religious Education between Local and European Perspectives -- 7. Analysis of Catholic Religious Instruction Textbooks in Croatian Primary School: How Do They Teach Atheism? -- 8. Politicization of the Religious Textbooks in Slovenia -- 9. Religious Education and Large Group Identity -- 10. Religious Education in Serbia as a Litmus Test for Church-State Relations -- 11. Education and Politicization of Religion in Post-Conflict Countries: Orthodoxy in School Textbooks,



Desecularization and Ethnic Distance in Serbian Textbooks -- 12. An Analysis of the Religious Education Textbooks in Serbia -- 13. The Analysis of the Textbooks for Orthodox Religious Education in Serbia -- 14. Afterword: Religion at School: To Teach or Not to Teach? The Case of Kosovo.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's. It traces the segregation among members of different ethnic groups in Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, which has never been greater or more systematic. It aims to be a necessary step in understanding the origins of this systematic segregation and how it is reproduced in educational practice, asserting that the politicization of religion in the school textbooks is one of the motors responsible for the ongoing ethnic segregation. It also deals with complex aspects of this issue, such as the general situation of religion in the different countries, the social position of churches, the issues of gender, the reconciliation after the Yugoslav Wars, and the integration of the EU.