Religion, Education and Human Rights
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Anders Sjöborg is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre, Department of Theology, Uppsala University (Sweden). He is active as researcher and coordinator in the research program The Impact of Religion - Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy, which is established as a Centre of excellence by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and Uppsala University, 2008-2018. He is one of the editors of YOUNG - Nordic Journal of Youth Research . He has recently published in journals such as British Journal of Religious Education , Nordic Journal of Religion and Society , and Journal of Religious Education .
Hans-Georg Ziebertz is Professor of Practical Theology / Religious Education at the University of Würzburg (Germany). Since 2012, he is the leader of the international empirical research program Religion and Human Rights. Recent books: together with J. A. van der Ven, Human Rights and the Impact of Religion (2013), together with Gordan Crpic, Religion and Human Rights. An international perspectiv e (2015) and recently, Religionsfreiheit (2015).
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Chapter 1. Education in the context of religious pluralism and human rights - an introduction (Anders Sjöborg).- Chapter 2. Sacred or Profane? Human Rights in Religious Education (Katarzyna Zielinska).- Chapter 3. Path of Belarusian Secularism: Public Debates on Religious Education (Olga Breskaya).- Chapter 4. Examining Religious Education in Finland from a Human Rights Perspective (Saila Poulter).- Chapter 5. Silent religious minorities in schools in Estonia (Olga Schihalejev).- Chapter 6. May children attend church services during school hours? How debates on religion in the public sphere affect Norwegian schools (Pål Ketil Botvar).- Chapter 7. Teaching the History of Human Rights (Dan-Erik Andersson).- Chapter 8. Religion in school -a judicial perspective (Viktoria Enquist).- Chapter 9. How young Muslims and Christians structure Human Rights. An empirical study in Germany (Hans-Georg Ziebertz).- Chapter 10. The influence of the socio-cultural environment and personality on attitudes towards human rights. An empirical analysis in reference to human rights education (Hans-Georg Ziebertz).- Chapter 11. Conscientious objections in clinical healthcare education as a manifestation of religion (Kavot Zillén).- Chapter 12. Good Practice in Human Rights Education in Schools: Giving Effect to Article 29 of the CRC (Paula Gerber). Chapter 13. TBD (Anders Sjöborg).
