Challenges on the Logical Possibility of Religious Education with an Emphasis on Hirst View

Document Type : پژوهشی

Author

• Mohammad Davoudi

Research Institute of Hawzah and University

10.22067/fedu.v9i2.78373

Abstract

This research aims to assess theoretical challenges on the possibility of religious education, which are as non-sensibility of religious educational science, indoctrinatory of religious education, and the impossibility of independently understanding the meaning of religious propositions. This research showed that religious educational science is meaningful because religious educational science could not be wholly independent of and irrelevant from culture and religion of society. Religious education is necessarily introductory, but it pertains to the method used for teaching religious thoughts. It is possible to understand religious propositions independently because religion does not have an independent, different form of knowledge. Besides, if it is assumed so, it is possible to know religious propositions individually, because understanding the religious propositions only necessitates understanding some basal religious propositions

Keywords

• indoctrination
• religious educational science
• understanding religious propositions
• Hirst
• Hand

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