Crossings and Crosses : : Borders, Educations, and Religions in Northern Europe / / ed. by Jenny Berglund, Thomas Lundén, Peter Strandbrink.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Assmuth, Laura,; Berglund, Jenny,; Bodin, Per-Arne,; Flaga, Małgorzata,; Jensen, Tim,; Lundén, Thomas,; Pasieka, Agnieszka,; Schihalejev, Olga,; Schreiner, Peter,; Shakhnovich, Marianna,; Strandbrink, Peter,; Łucjan, Kamila,
• HerausgeberIn: Berglund, Jenny,; Lundén, Thomas,; Strandbrink, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 63
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface. Crossings and crosses – teaching religion in border communities --; Table of Contents --; Introduction: On crossings and crosses --; The Russian Orthodox Church, its domains and borders --; Intertwining identities: The politics of language and nationality in the Estonian-Russian borderlands --; Multireligious and multiethnic public schooling in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland --; Visible conflicts on invisible borders: Religious antagonisms in the eastern borderland of Poland --; Shifting borders in religious education in Estonia --; Religious education on the borders --; Religion in contemporary public education in Russia --; Religious education in the European context --; Unpacking postnormativity in religious and civic education: Coming to an early end? --; Society, proximity, and education on the border --; The spatiality of religion --; Religious education (RE) in other kinds of bordertowns: Denmark as an extreme and exemplary case --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614516552; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110439687; 9783110438727
• ISSN: 1437-5370
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614516552
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jenny Berglund, Thomas Lundén, Peter Strandbrink.

Dealing with different regions and cases, the contributions in this volume address and critically explore the theme of borders, educations, and religions in northern Europe. As shown in different ways, and contrary to popular ideas, there seems to be little reason to believe that religious and civic identity formation through public education is becoming less parochial and more culturally open. Even where state borders are porous, where commerce, culture, and trade as well as associative, personal, and social life display stronger liminal traits, normative education remains surprisingly national. This situation is remarkable and goes against the grain of current notions of both accelerating globalisation and a European regional renaissance. The book also takes issue with the foundational tenet that liberal democracies are by definition uninvolved in matters concerning faith and belief. Instead, an implied conclusion is that secular liberal democracy is less than secular and liberal - at least in education, which is a major arena for political-cultural-ethical socialisation, as it aims to confer worldviews and frameworks of identity on young people who will eventually become full citizens and bearers/sharers of prevailing normative communities.