Religion, Education and Human Rights : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

This book examines the interconnectedness between religion, education, and human rights from an international perspective using an interdisciplinary approach. It deals with compulsory or secondary school education in different contexts, as well as higher education, and has as its common theme the mu...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Sjöborg, Anders (Editor), Ziebertz, Hans-Georg (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesReligion and Human Rights, 1
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319540696
ISSN2510-4306 ;
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-54069-6
Physical DescriptionVI, 212 p. 15 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Education in the context of religious pluralism and human rights - an introduction (Anders Sjöborg)
  • Chapter 2. Sacred or Profane? Human Rights in Religious Education (Katarzyna Zielińska)
  • Chapter 3. Path of Belarusian Secularism: Public Debates on Religious Education (Olga Breskaya)
  • Chapter 4. Examining Religious Education in Finland from a Human Rights Perspective (Saila Poulter)
  • Chapter 5. Silent religious minorities in schools in Estonia (Olga Schihalejev)
  • Chapter 6. May children attend church services during school hours? How debates on religion in the public sphere affect Norwegian schools (Pål Ketil Botvar)
  • Chapter 7. Teaching the History of Human Rights (Dan-Erik Andersson)
  • Chapter 8. Religion in school -a judicial perspective (Viktoria Enquist)
  • Chapter 9. How young Muslims and Christians structure Human Rights. An empirical study in Germany (Hans-Georg Ziebertz)
  • Chapter 10. The influence of the socio-cultural environment and personality on attitudes towards human rights. An empirical analysis in reference to human rights education (Hans-Georg Ziebertz)
  • Chapter 11. Conscientious objections in clinical healthcare education as a manifestation of religion (Kavot Zillén)
  • Chapter 12. Good Practice in Human Rights Education in Schools: Giving Effect to Article 29 of the CRC (Paula Gerber). Chapter 13. TBD (Anders Sjöborg).