Parallel Paths: Christian-Muslim Symbiosis and Religious Education in Greece

Angeliki Ziaka

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Christian-Muslim Symbiosis and Religious Education in Greece

In: Islam, Christianity, and Secularism in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe

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Pages:: 201–226

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004511569_010

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The present chapter discusses religious education and whether it advances co-existence, cultivates critical thinking in childhood and youth, and facilitates religious diversity. Its fundamental proposition is that religion and the co-existence of religions in the public sphere is again becoming imperative due to rapid changes in Europe and throughout the world, the “return of religion”—mainly through Islam—and the growing impoverishment of many regions. Religion as a subject matter in public schools has become the focus of heated debate. The chapter focuses on the Greek case against the backdrop of other major European models of religious education. It looks at the political and ideological debates on religious education, the new curricula and teachers’ study-guides, and the place of Christianity and Islam in the public and educational domains. Subsequently this chapter provides a brief presentation of the teaching of Islam in Western Thrace, an area of Greece where various Muslim groups account for about a third of the population, focusing on the way Islam is taught in Muslim-minority schools, mosques, and lately in public schools. It proposes an innovative operational program for education and lifelong learning that would benefit Christian and Muslim teachers of religion and religious officials in Thrace and elsewhere. This learning program is designed to bring Christian and Muslim Greek citizens together through the course of religious education (RE) and joint training in an intercultural process of religious education.

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Islam, Christianity, and Secularism in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe

The Last Half Century

Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, Volume: 129

Cover Islam, Christianity, and Secularism in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004511569

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 Apr 2022

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Part 1 Secularism in Bulgaria and Its Region

Part 2 Christian and Muslim Men and Women under State Atheism and Postsocialist Secularism

Part 3 Religion, Publicity, and Concealment in Orthodox-Majority Societies

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