Open this publication in new window or tab >>2024 (English)In: British Journal of Religious Education, ISSN 0141-6200, E-ISSN 1740-7931, Vol. 46, no 2, p. 109-121Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In order to include all outlooks and perspectives on the world prevalent in contemporary society, countries like Sweden have replaced traditional religious education with worldview education. However, current worldview theory fails to make justice to two important facts concerning the contemporary religious landscape. Firstly, a great many people are semi-secular rather than traditional believers or atheists. Secondly, many have non-doxastic attitudes such as hope or acceptance instead of belief. We therefore suggest that worldview education needs to include semi-secularity, and that it needs to clearly separate the content of a worldview from the variety of epistemic attitudes a person might have towards that content.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2024
Keywords
non-doxasticism, Sweden; semi-secularity; Worldview education
National Category
Didactics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-43291 (URN)10.1080/01416200.2023.2286184 (DOI)001126115000001 ()2-s2.0-85179995982 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2018-01050
2023-11-172023-11-172024-04-19Bibliographically approved