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Lipiäinen, Tuuli; Halafoff, Anna; Mansouri, Fethi; Bouma, Gary – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
Ongoing global issues relating to the decline of the popularity of institutional religions, the rise of numbers of non-religious persons, and new models of spirituality in superdiverse societies have resulted in the need to reconceptualise religious diversity as worldviews diversity, and to critically examine increasing calls for the provision of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Intergroup Relations, World Views, Religious Education
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Kuusisto, Elina; Kuusisto, Arniika; Kallioniemi, Arto – British Journal of Religious Education, 2016
This paper examines, through a non-probability sample of 451 Finnish lower secondary-school pupils belonging to the 15- to 16-year-old age group, how interreligious sensitivity is related to religiousness profiles of Finnish youth. The data were gathered in two geographical locations: Helsinki, Finland's capital, and a smaller municipality in the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Profiles, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Riitaoja, Anna-Leena; Dervin, Fred – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
Interreligious dialogue is a central objective in European and UNESCO policy and research documents, in which educational institutions are seen as central places for dialogue. In this article, we discuss this type of dialogue under the conditions of asymmetry and categorisation in two Finnish schools. Finnish education has often been lauded for…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Intercultural Communication, Religious Cultural Groups, Foreign Countries