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Religious Education in Finland: Promoting Intelligent Belief?
2000
This article discusses current dilemmas in religious education in Finland. Different interpretations of confessional religious education are presented in the context of the Lutheran tradition. Pedagogical applications of religious education advocated by Michael Grimmitt are explored as plausible approaches in promoting the religious understanding of students. The article presents some suggestions to enrich Grimmitt's pedagogy with a more argumentative approach, which unites both reason and feeling. Such an intelligent approach is arguably in accord with the pedagogical interpretation of confessional religious education.
TIME OF UNCERTAIN CONVERSATIONS: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE POST-SOVIET LATVIA
2005
Abstract This article describes the development of religious education within the system of public education in Latvia. It consists of three parts. The first part deals with the social context of a post-Soviet society and its impact on the development of religious education. The second part describes the four approaches to religious education in public schools that have emerged in Latvia during the last ten years: the confessional approach, the ecumenical Christian approach, the world religions approach, and the Christian ethics approach. The third part analyzes the problems and opportunities presented by the current stage of plurality of approaches.
Le Confessioni religiose «del terzo tipo» nell'arena pubblica nazionale: problemi, dinamiche e tendenze operative
2014
The essay examines the legal status of confessional entities that have no agreement relationships with State, and who also did not obtainthe recognition stated by the 1929 law on «culti ammessi». It first discusses the difficulty such entities have experienced in achieving such recognition, which is mainly due to the practice adopted by the apical Administration - forced by legislative inertia in the field - which interprets the recognition very broadly, as a moment of the confesson's special «accountability», not stated by positive law. The lack of such «informal» status affects several aspects of the crucial choices that named entities make about the «style of presence» to be adopted in p…
Hizballāh and Lebanese Nationalism: The muqāwamah Proposal, Limits and Perimeters
2018
Abstract In this paper, an attempt was made to understand whether the ideological proposal of the muqāwamah (Islamic resistance), advanced by Ḥizballāh from 1982 until the present day, can be considered as a national value that is valid not only for the Shia community, but also for other communities, such as Christian or Sunni. In this paper, an attempt was made to understand whether the ideological proposal of the muqāwamah, advanced by Ḥizballāh from 1982 until the present day, can be considered as a national value that is valid not only for the Shia community, but also for other communities, such as Christian or Sunni.
Confessionalization and social discipline: two paradigms for the modern history
2019
Con este artículo se pretende ofrecer una visión global sobre los procesos de “confesionalización” y “disciplinamiento social” de las sociedades europeas de los siglos XVI y XVII. Paralelamente nos planteamos demostrar la necesaria correlación de estos dos paradigmas historiográficos y su relevancia para el análisis de los fenómenos religiosos, políticos y sociales de la Edad Moderna.
Laicità, neoconfessionalismo e bioetica
2009
Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti, XXV
2019
Religious-Philosophical Articles XXV are dedicated to the international conference Socio-Political and Religious Ideas and Movements in the 20th–21st Centuries organised by the researchers of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia. The conference was held in cooperation with colleagues from the Institute of Political Science of the University of Opole, the Institute of International Studies of the University of Wroclaw, the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Philosophy of the St. Petersburg State University. The conference took place in Riga on 4–5 October 2018. Thus, the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology f…
Catherine Jagiellon, Queen Consort of Sweden: Counselling Between the Catholic Jagiellons and the Lutheran Vasas
2018
Catherine Jagiellon (1526–83), was a Catholic Polish-Lithuanian princess married to a Lutheran Swedish Prince, John Vasa, Duke of Finland and later King of Sweden. Her case provides important insights into the impact of confessional differences within a royal marriage of the sixteenth century and their consequences for counsel. The chapter highlights the significance of Catherine’s network of confidants, and the role of her entourage in providing political support. While she was not always a successful counsellor, evidence from her correspondence demonstrates that she was a careful manager of her self-presentation in a range of delicate situations.
The Makings of Mother in Diary Narratives
2004
This article ponders the special character of “confessional” texts, especially the diary-form text both for its keeper and for its researcher. Diaries written by ordinary people certainly give us knowledge about psychic, cultural, and social realities, but what kind of knowledge, and how could it be interpreted? This article uses a toolbox of narrative discourse analysis critically applied to diary texts written by three mothers during the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s. Theoretically, feminist ideas of the desire to mother and Foucauldian thought of the arts of existence are made use of in the article.