Introduction
Religion is – across national context – commonly said to have had a historically central role in educating and raising future generations in premodern times. In popular as well as in academic discourse, it has often been assumed that the non-West was and still is particularly marked and even controlled by religion up until today, and thus it is dubbed “premodern.” The West, including Western education, has in contrast been identified with modernity and thus secular rationality. Modernity in Europe and North America has been perceived as based on separation of religion from public matters, including separation of religion from modern schooling. Such views are related to the concept of secularization that up until the 1990s dominated Western educational and historical research, as well as religion studies, including voices critical toward secularization as a political project.
Since secularization as a research paradigm was increasingly found inadequate from especially the...
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Buchardt, M. (2017). Religion and Modern Educational Aspirations. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_2
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