Issues In Religion And Education: Whose Religion?

Issues in Religion and Education International Studies in Religion and Society Series edited by Lori G. Beaman (University of Ottawa) Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa) Advisory Board Afe Adogame (University of Edinburgh) Elizabeth Coleman (Monash University) Lene Kühle (Aarhus University) Mary Jo Neitz (University of Missouri) Linda Woodhead (University of Lancaster) VOLUME 25 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/isrs Issues in Religion and Education Whose Religion? Edited by Lori G. Beaman Leo Van Arragon LEIDEN | BOSTON This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 1573-4293 ISBN 978-90-04-28980-2 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-28981-9 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Contents About the Authors ix 1 Introduction 1 Leo Van Arragon and Lori G. Beaman PART 1 Contexts 2 Public Religion in an Age of Ambivalence: Recovering Religious Literacy after a Century of Secularism 19 Adam Dinham 3 Religion and Education in Ontario Public Education: Contested Borders and Uneasy Truces 34 Leo Van Arragon 4 Minority Faiths and Religious Education Policy: The Case of Australian and American Jews, 1945–1980 59 Damon Mayrl 5 Religion as a Separate Area of Study in India 83 Asha Mukherjee PART 2 Conceptualising Religion 6 What is Indian ‘Religion’? How Should it Be Taught? 107 Sonia Sikka 7 What Does Conceptualisation of Religion Have to Do with Religion in Education? 126 Geir Skeie 8 Law’s Entanglements: Resolving Questions of Religion and Education 156 Lori G. Beaman, Lauren L. Forbes and Christine L. Cusack vi 9 Contents  From Religion to Spirituality in Education: Towards a Political Regulation of Spirituality? 183 Solange Lefebvre PART 3 Challenges 10 The Spaces in Between: Religion, Sexual Identity, Media and Education in Ontario 211 Heather Shipley 11 Neutrality in Public School Religion Education: Theory and Politics 231 Bruce Grelle 12 Religion, the Elephant in the Asia-Focused Australian School Room 257 Catherine Byrne 13 Religion in Schools: A Human Rights Contribution to the Debate 282 Alison Mawhinney PART 4 Textures 14 Who Speaks for Religion? 307 Pamela Dickey Young 15 Lagging Behind Other Nations: The Religions in School Debate in Australia 321 Anna Halafoff and Kim Lam 16 Religion and the Cultures of Higher Education: Student Christianity in the UK 346 Mathew Guest Contents 17 Impartiality of Teachers in Quebec’s Non-Denominational Ethics and Religious Culture Program 367 Stéphanie Gravel Index 389 vii About the Authors Lori G. Beaman is the C