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Educating to Democracy and Social Participation through a “History of Religion” Course

Educating to Democracy and Social Participation through a “History of Religion” Course

Mariachiara Giorda, Marina Guerrisi
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781466621220|ISBN10: 1466621222|EISBN13: 9781466621237
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch014
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Giorda, Mariachiara, and Marina Guerrisi. "Educating to Democracy and Social Participation through a “History of Religion” Course." Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements, edited by Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 152-161. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch014

APA

Giorda, M. & Guerrisi, M. (2013). Educating to Democracy and Social Participation through a “History of Religion” Course. In P. Pumilia-Gnarini, E. Favaron, E. Pacetti, J. Bishop, & L. Guerra (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements (pp. 152-161). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch014

Chicago

Giorda, Mariachiara, and Marina Guerrisi. "Educating to Democracy and Social Participation through a “History of Religion” Course." In Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements, edited by Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini, et al., 152-161. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch014

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Abstract

Starting from the potentialities and the limits of the Italian Religious Education and the healthiness of the knowledge about religions, this chapter introduces an experimental method to teach religions created in the last few years in some Italian secondary schools. The experimentation the article is focused on is one of the consequences arisen out of the debate on the option of an education about religions rather than into or from one religion. The background is the inadequacy of the Italian educational proposal related to the cultural and religious pluralism of our society, not only in a scholastic context, but also in a more popular level of the public debate. Since in a democratic and intercultural society the comprehension of different religious realities is indispensable, the development in Italy - as it already happens in other European countries - of a new knowledge about religions should undoubtedly serve this purpose: educating to democracy and social participation is possible through a “History of Religion” course.

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