The Challenges of Religious Literacy: The Case of Finland
Religion has become a pressing matter in different fields of multicultural European society, which raises the question as to how best to govern religious diver- sity. What we argue in this book is that a successful governance of religious diversity necessitates the development of religious literacy. As such, religious literacy can be understood in a variety of ways depending on the particular context. This book draws on different empirical case studies concerning Finland, covering traditional Finnish religious movements and issues pertaining to immigration and the growing ethnic and religious diversity of Finnish society. In doing so, it delves, among other matters, into the field of school education and state policies against radicalization and violence.Religion has become a pressing matter in different fields of multicultural European society, which raises the question as to how best to govern religious diver- sity. What we argue in this book is that a successful governance of religious diversity necessitates the development of religious literacy. As such, religious literacy can be understood in a variety of ways depending on the particular context. This book draws on different empirical case studies concerning Finland, covering traditional Finnish religious movements and issues pertaining to immigration and the growing ethnic and religious diversity of Finnish society. In doing so, it delves, among other matters, into the field of school education and state policies against radicalization and violence.
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Religion has become a pressing matter in different fields of multicultural European society, which raises the question as to how best to govern religious diver- sity. What we argue in this book is tha
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University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland. Tuula Sakaranaho, Ph.D., is Professor of the Study of Religions and Vice Dean, at the Faculty of Theology, the University of Helsinki. Her research interests concern the governance of religious diversity in a multicultural European society, with a special focus on religious freedom and Muslims in Europe. She has also published on religious education in Finland and on Islamic religious education in Finland and Ireland.
Tuula Sakaranaho (Editor)
University of Lapland Rovaniemi, Finland. Timo Aarrevaara is a Professor of Public Management at the University of Lapland, Principal investigator of the research team of Professions in Arctic Societies, Co-Editor in Spring Changing Academy Series, and has conducted number of scholarly projects.
Timo Aarrevaara (Editor)
University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland. Johanna Konttori, Ph.D., is a Research Coordinator at the University of Helsinki. In her doctoral work (2015), she examined the political debates on headscarves and full veils in twenty-first-century France. Her main areas of expertise include state– religion relations, religions in the public sphere, and Islam, all in the European context. These topics also informed her postdoctoral research, in which she examined religious literacy in Finland.
Johanna Konttori (Editor)
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