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Pedagogía y Saberes
Print version ISSN 0121-2494
Abstract
TOVAR-BERNAL, Leonardo. Public and Non-Denominational Religious Education. Pedagogía y Saberes [online]. 2019, n.51, pp.113-131. ISSN 0121-2494.
What is the place of religious education in the public school in Colombia? Is religious teaching that privileges a particular creed compatible with a State that shows itself as pluralistic? In this reflection, we will try to answer these questions from three moments. First, the current characteristics of the religious phenomenon are discussed, and pluralism is treated as a political and theological problem. Subsequently, the Colombian liberal legislation that favors pluralism is condensed, and some programs of the so-called School Religious Teaching are analyzed. Finally, we review four texts of religious instruction and introduce a non-confessional proposal about the place that religious teaching could occupy in the public school.
Keywords : religious teaching; public school; pluralism; confessional; religion.