EUROPEAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND EUROPEAN CIVIL RELIGION

Journal article

This paper challenges a foundational conjecture of the Religion in Education Dialogue or Conflict (REDCo) project, that increased interest in religion in public and political life as manifested particularly in education is evidence of counter-secularisation. The paper argues that rather than representing counter-secularisation, such developments represent an emergent and secularising European civil religion facilitated through European religious education. © 2012 Society for Educational Studies.

Authors: Gearon, L

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 151-169
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2012.671929
• EISSN: 1467-8527
• ISSN: 0007-1005
• Language: English
• Keywords: REDCo; European religious education; civil religion; secularisation; Europe