RELIGIONS, EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY

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RELIGIONS, EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY :

THE NECESSITY OF INTER-RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE MODERN PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

by Polikarpos Karamouzis

During the twentieth century, European societies have passed through a process of secularization. That means that the institutional organization of states was separated from the religious ideas and churches have declined considerably. This approach was the result first of all of confessional diversification,3 and secondly of the Enlightenment’s critique against the religion that had three clearly distinguishable dimensions: a cognitive one, directed against metaphysical and supernatural
religious worldviews, a practical – political that was against ecclesiastical institutions and a subjective expressive – aesthetic – moral directed against the idea of God. However with the emergence of the modern world, religious organizations had to adapt to two new circumstances.

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