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Direct linkFrancis Jonbäck; Carl-Johan Palmqvist – British Journal of Religious Education, 2024
In order to include all outlooks and perspectives on the world prevalent in contemporary society, countries like Sweden have replaced traditional religious education with worldview education. However, current worldview theory fails to make justice to two important facts concerning the contemporary religious landscape. Firstly, a great many people…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Beliefs, World Views, Foreign Countries
Gustavsson, Caroline – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
This paper introduces existential configuration as a concept possibly used to describe, talk about and discuss peoples' meaning-making, not least in religious education classrooms. The article builds on an interview study of 21 Swedish young adults from 19 to 29 years of age. Many of these young adults displayed complex methods of meaning-making…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Young Adults, Religious Factors, Political Attitudes
Niemi, Kristian – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
Religion as a school subject--Religious Education (RE)--is handled differently in various national contexts. This article discusses two different systems of managing (or avoiding) RE: those used in non-denominational Swedish and Indian schools. The article focuses particularly on what is allowed in the classroom with regards to religion. Both…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Christianity, Protestants, Cross Cultural Studies
Franck, Olof – British Journal of Religious Education, 2015
In this article, a religious education, which combines a respect for relevant critical demands, when analysing religious truth-claims, and a sensitivity to the need to avoid unwarranted criteriological constraints in the analysing process, is examined. Starting with an analytical comment upon Andrew Wright's critical realist approach in terms of a…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Ethics, Course Descriptions, Teaching Methods
Osbeck, C.; Lied, S. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2012
The "purpose" of this article is to illustrate how potential learning is related to hegemonic speech genres. This we do through examples from two religious education (RE) classrooms, one Norwegian and one Swedish. By presenting important dimensions of speech genres used in RE classrooms, the article also contributes to developing theory.…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Power Structure, Disproportionate Representation, Grade 9
Naeslund, Lars – Religious Education, 2009
The impact of committed guests in Religious Education at school is focused in this study. Ten pupils (age 17) were sampled to contribute as informants in semi-structured interviews. The data consist of eight texts (interview excerpts), which are interpreted within a hermeneutic approach, specifically by taking the formal features into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hermeneutics, Interviews, Religious Education
