Religious and religious education: subject field and relations

Authors

  • Анатолій Миколайович Колодний

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32420/2014.70.404

Abstract

Religion and education ... The problem of their relationship has long been of interest to the pedagogical community and the Church. Recently, in connection with the actualization of the religious factor in the social and spiritual life, she also appeared in Ukraine. The question is not whether to give or not to give through the education system knowledge about religion. There is a question of what knowledge and how much it can be taught about when, where and who should give them. There is still a question and whether there should exist in parallel two systems of education - secular and spiritual, and whether spiritual education by its status should be equated with secular and certified by the same documents, which are valid in the sphere of secular life. But if that is the case then it is likely that spiritual education is then covered by the rule of studying in the educational institutions of the compulsory list-the minimum of educational disciplines, which are now taught in all secular educational institutions and which form a broad world view of their recipients. It would seem that the Ministry of Education and Science should also be subject to the control of spiritual education. The state should know not only what they are taught here, but also how and who they are teaching.

Published

28.05.2014

How to Cite

“Religious and religious education: subject field and relations” (2014) Ukrainian Religious Studies, (70), pp. 31–44. doi:10.32420/2014.70.404.