CLIȘEE DIN SCENARIUL DEZBATERILOR PRIVIND STATUTUL ȘI CONȚINUTUL OREI DE RELIGIE ÎN SISTEMUL NAȚIONAL DE EDUCAȚIE AL GRECIEI
EXAMPLES FROM SCENARIO OF THE DEBATES ON THE STATUS AND THE CONTENT OF THE RELIGION CLASS IN THE GREEK NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM

Summary/Abstract: The status and the content of the Religion Class holds a special place in the debates and polemics of the Greek society, especially lately, when the problem emerged is the replacement of the current Curriculum by a new one meant to turn the Religion Class into a class of History of Religions or even Religious Syncretism. In the Greek national education system, the Religion Class is part of the “general education core” and is obligatory, being exempted from it only the pupils of a different religion, the heterodox and those without religion, who invoke reasons of religious conscience. According to the current Curriculum, the religion textbooks’ priority is the teaching of the knowledge related to the local Orthodox tradition and teaching, which would be closer to the concept of “religious literacy”, as developed by Andrew Wright, whereas the new Curriculum pursues the application of Robert Jackson’s concept, namely the realization of a “liberal religious education”, by trying to find common points of all the religions and create a particular religious faith, thus cultivating rather an “interreligious literacy”. To highlight the concepts concerning the content of the Religion Class, and also certain events and positions taken by the Church, with the contribution of the hierarchy and of the religion teachers, to which one can add the support of numerous Greek intellectuals and politicians, the structure of the research axis in this study includes: the presentation of the content and status of the Religion Class in Greece; the description of the struggle of the religion teachers’ unions; the information of the Romanian society about the efforts made in the Greek society in order to maintain the status of the Religion Class and its content based on th e Orthodox Christian tradition; the delineation of certain aspects concerning the celebration of the spiritual patrons of Education and Letters in Greece (the Three Holy Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom).

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