Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age

Olof Franck is Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Peder Thalén is Professor at the University of Gävle, Sweden.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Religious Education and the Notion of the Post-Secular; Olof Franck and Peder Thalén.- Chapter 2. Religious Education, Postsecularity and Neoliberalism; Nigel Fancourt.- Chapter 3. Dealing with Religion in Education in Post-Religious and Post-Secular Times; Geir Skeie.- Chapter 4. Curriculum Constructions in Northern and Western Europe – A Three-Country Analysis; Kerstin von Brömssen and Graeme Nixon.- Chapter 5. What about Transformative Religious Education?; Gunnar j. Gunnarsson.- Chapter 6. Transition in RE in Finland; Martin Ubani, Saila Poulter and Inkeri Rissanen.- Chapter 7. Uncertainty and Mortality: Two Stubborn Particulars of Religious Education; Julian Stern.- Chapter 8. Changing the Game in English Religious Education: 1971 and 2018; Denise Cush.- Chapter 9. World View Instead of Religion?; Peder Thalén.- Chapter 10. A Study-of–Religion(s) Based RE: A Must for All Times, - Post-Modern, PostSecular or Not!; Tim Jensen.- Chapter 11. Autonomy and Shared Citizenship: a ‘Neutral’ Justification for RE?; Leni Franken.- Chapter 12. Facing Religious Ethical Claims in Post-Secular Ethics Education: Challenges and Contributions; Olof Franck.