Czy pedagogika religii daje się sekularyzować O ortodoksjach, herezjach i religioznawczych perspektywach rozwoju subdyscypliny
Can pedagogy of religion be secularized? On orthodoxy, heresy, and the prospects of disciplinary development from the point of view of critical religious studies

Summary/Abstract: Reconstructing semantic and functional contexts of using categories of orthodoxy and heresy in selected sociological concepts allows to build and include their theoretical poten-tial in the field of general pedagogy and pedagogy of religion. The pedagogy of religion in Poland is usually reserved for pedagogical-theological thinking within the Christian tradition. This type of approach resonates strongly with the classical theories of religious studies situating itself in the current of the so-called revalorization of religion. It does not, however, seem to exhaust the spectrum of possibilities offered to the pedagogy of religion by contemporary critical religious studies, which no longer link the problems of religion so closely with the problems of theology. On the contrary, they detach the phenomenon of religion from theology, secularize it, which results in an extraordinary diversity of theories of religion, often linking them with such “non-religious” subjects as ecologies, ideologies, sports or urban movements. In this paper, starting from the presentation of selected findings from my own research on the categories of orthodoxy and heresy, I am outlining the thus--far underestimated theoretical potential of critical religious studies for teh development of pedagogy of religion in Poland.

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