religious education
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teaching of a particular religion and its varied aspects
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- field of study
- Subclass of
- education
- Author
- Richard Dehmel
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- topic's main category
- Category:Religious education
- Commons category
- Religious education
- Classification of Instructional Programs code
- 39.0401
- different from
- religious studies
- described by source
- Wikitólica
- opposite of
- secular education
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Encyclopedic overview
In secular usage, religious education is the teaching of a particular religion (although in the United Kingdom the term religious instruction would refer to the teaching of a particular religion, with religious education referring to teaching about religions in general) and its varied aspects: its beliefs, doctrines, rituals, customs, rites, and personal roles. In Western and secular culture, religious education can imply a type of education which is separate from academia, and which (generally) regards religious belief as a fundamental tenet and operating modality, as well as a prerequisite for attendance.
The secular concept is substantially different from societies that adhere to religious law, wherein "religious education" connotes the dominant academic study, and in typically religious terms, teaches doctrines which define social customs as "laws" and the violations thereof as "crimes", or else misdemeanors requiring punitive correction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “religious education” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.