Western European countries are facing social challenges that many citizens experience as threats to national or even European culture. In response, much scholarly attention has been devoted to questions concerning populism and the fragility of democratic institutions. This focus risks assuming too deterministic a relationship between values holding currency in a society and the institutions which contingently embody those values at any given time. These panels analyse Bildung, formation, or “being educated” as one example of a “soft” value that evolves in different forms and for which transformations can be intentionally though not deterministically pursued. Specifically, the focus will be on religious attitudes toward “being educated” and aims to look at the ways these attitudes and the structures that express them evolved in Europe, both historically and into the present.
Chair:- Matthew Robinson (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Panelists:
- Matthew Robinson (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) - Bildung and Soft Political Values: Ernst Troeltsch on “Stretchy Churches” and Impossible Ideals
- Jonas Lundblad (University of Lund) - Religion and Western Aesthetic Education: Schleiermacher meets his postcolonial critics
- Stephen G. Parker (University of Worcester) - The Church of England and Religious Education: Ecclesiastical Protectionism and Christian Decline
- Esther Reed (University of Exeter) - The Pedagogue Leading up to Christ': Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Educative Purpose of Human Law
Language: English
