Deconstructive Religious Education

Abstract

The article argues that even though deconstruction has indications for action in religious education, the action should be subordinated to the notion of deconstruction as event. Three strategies can be used in the curriculum of religious education inspired by deconstruction. The first strategy is to emphasize the spirit of religion as different from the corpus of rituals. The second strategy concentrates on the common core of religions as a basis for translatability among different religions. Finally, the third strategy deals with providing compatibility between faith and knowledge.

Acknowledgments

Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Tehran and Zohreh Khosravi is Associate Professor at the University of Al-Zahra in Tehran, Iran. E-mail: [email protected]