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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Should Sacred Studies, the study of religions, their history, their effects on society, the basic tenets of each and inter-relationships be taught as part of the general public education in the US?
AbE: Probably for Faith & Belief or Misc. This message has been edited by AdminPhat, 04-28-2005 02:05 AM
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AdminPhat Inactive Member |
Thread moved here from the Proposed New Topics forum.
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Phat Member Posts: 18349 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
Since religion plays such a big role in shaping events and cultural preconceptions in the world today, I believe that a good knowledge of comparitive religions should be taught. Additionally, and concurrently, I think that comparitive belief systems (paradigms or world views) should be explained along with it.
I do not think that I could teach it, for I am intuitively biased towards Christianity. One may argue that anyone is intuitively biased towards one philosophy/theology or another, however!
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1373 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
yes.
much of the world's history has to do with religion. comparitive religion should be part of teaching history and philosophy and literature.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
I think it's a good idea - andf it's what happens in the better schools in this country - but there are practical problems, especially in the U.S.A.
Fistly you need teachers who are prepared to address the subject in a fair and accurate way. We've already seen that there are teachers in the U.S. who will not only use science classes to push their personal religious beliefs but will even threaten lawsuits (that have no merit and little chance of success) in an attempt to force the schools to go along with their demands. A subject like this is even more open to such abuse. Secondly it will NOT in any way appease that subset of the Christian Right who want to bring their religion into schools. They will oppose it because it teaches about other religions.
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Melchior Inactive Member |
Swedish schools teach a Religion class, normally during the 10th year. I am not sure if this is mandated or if it's up to each individual school, but I read it while training to be an electrician, so it's rather wide spread.
It was basically the same as reading world history or social studies. If you can get past the practical problems (US is more geared toward a specific religion than Sweden) then I think it's something worth teaching, even if the interest for it might not be that high among all students.
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.3 |
Absolutely. Religion is a major part of the cultural, historical and social setup of the world; everyone should study all the major religions, their beliefs, their varients and their histories.
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macaroniandcheese  Suspended Member (Idle past 3957 days) Posts: 4258 Joined: |
yeppers.
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Wounded King Member Posts: 4149 From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Joined: |
Religious Education is par for the course in Scottish schools. It normally only constitutes perhaps 1 period a week - about 40 minutes. Of course it is generally regarded as a waste of time, by the pupils, and its breadth is quite dependent on the particular teacher.
TTFN, WK
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CK Member (Idle past 4157 days) Posts: 3221 Joined: |
yeah I used to dread teaching R.E. - the kids were bored to tears and so was I.
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dsv Member (Idle past 4753 days) Posts: 220 From: Secret Underground Hideout Joined: |
Definitely.
A Philosophy-based area of study in public high schools would be excellent. I would love to see a class geared towards exploring all different types of religions and belief systems throughout history and the world. Would have loved to have that in my high school.
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StormWolfx2x Inactive Member |
yes, but defiantly in social studies class and not in science. Just as its nearly impossible to understand some sciences without the ToE, it would be nearly impossible to understand sociology without knowledge of religion.
Unfortunately I think this would cause problems with parents in public schools, wasn't there a thread earlier about even a college student trying to sue a professor for talking about something against her beliefs? edit spelling This message has been edited by StormWolfx2x, 04-28-2005 05:20 PM
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doctrbill Member (Idle past 2794 days) Posts: 1174 From: Eugene, Oregon, USA Joined: |
PaulK writes: ... it will NOT in any way appease that subset of the Christian Right who want to bring their religion into schools. They will oppose it because it teaches about other religions. Not only do they want to bring their religion into the schools; they also want to bring it into government. They want a return to Monarchy: to install their King (Jesus) and make Christianity the state religion. But Jesus will not appear, of course; so they will have to anoint someone to represent him: a 'vicar of Christ.' You know, a Protestant version of The Pope. I'm not sure this hasn't already begun with the current administration. Theology is the science of Dominion. - - - My God is your god's Boss - - -
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
But we have not heard from many parts of the populus.
Would a Muslim object to having Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, as well as the philosophers from Greece to 20th. Century Germany taught alongside and in the same manner as Islam? How would a Fundamentalist Christian see that? Would the outcome be more tolerance and understanding? Aslan is not a Tame Lion |
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
In Odessa, Texas, there is a proposal for some sort of elective Bible studies class being injected into the public school. I previously saw a better article on it, but can't right now find it.
We could only hope that the counter-proposal to such, and/or to efforts to inject ID or such, would be that of a broad based "Sacred Studies" class. Moose
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