Abstract
The aim of the paper is to present a study on the relationship between education and the development of religious consciousness according to the Greek constitution (1975) and the aim of the education as stated in it. Firstly, the paper questions whether the term and the concept of religious consciousness in the Greek Constitution should be ‘consciousness’ or ‘conscience’. For that an interdisciplinary study of different views based on politics/law, psychology, sociology, theology and philosophy provide tools to understand that in the Greek Constitution (bearing in mind that Greece is a case study of secularisation) the concept is explicitly referred as ‘consciousness’ precisely because it is related to the education of children. The paper, finally, discusses the link and implications (if any) between religious consciousness [(non-)faith, (non-)religiosity] with citizenship within secondary education as a part of an ongoing research project about Religion and Democratic Citizenship in Greece.
Presenters
Iro PotamousiPhD Candidate, Primary Education, University of the Aegean, Greece, Greece Polikarpos Karamouzis
Professor, Sociology of Religion,, Primary Education , Aegean University , Dodekanisos, Greece Marios Koukounaras Liagkis
Associate Professor, Pedagogy/Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Religious Community and Socialization
KEYWORDS
Religious consciousness, Education, Constitution
