The World Religions paradigm: Time for a change
The teaching of religions has long relied on the World Religions paradigm toguide curricula throughout education, which has led to a widening gap, on theone hand, between what is taught in schools and in universities and, on the other,between research and teaching. While the World Religions paradigm...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2011]
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Arts and humanities in higher education
Year: 2011, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 253-268 |
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| Summary: | The teaching of religions has long relied on the World Religions paradigm toguide curricula throughout education, which has led to a widening gap, on theone hand, between what is taught in schools and in universities and, on the other,between research and teaching. While the World Religions paradigm has allowedthe inclusion of non-Christian religions in education, it has also remodelled themaccording to liberal Western Christian values, influencing the conception of ‘reli-gion’ beyond educational contexts. This article argues that it is time to discard theWorld Religions paradigm altogether in favour of a more critical approach to thestudy of religion, as a constructed category, as well as a study of religions in theircontexts |
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| ISSN: | 1741-265X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Arts and humanities in higher education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1474022211408038 |