SUVREMENE TENDENCIJE U DRUŠTVU – IZAZOVI ZA VJERONAUK U ŠKOLI
MODERN TENDENCIES IN THE SOCIETY – CHALLENGES FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS

Summary/Abstract: One of the basic characteristics of modern society is a constant change. Changes in the society are especially accelerated by great technological development, which brings changes in all segments of social life. Since religious education, in our case religious education in school, is performed in schools, the author analyzes in what way the social context, which is constantly changing, affects the religious education and the students. In the first part, the author analyzes some social phenomena that directly or indirectly affect the mentality, attitudes, values and the visions of life of children and young people, especially religion students. Among these phenomena special attention is given to the following: the marginalization of religion, the weakening of religious literacy, the suppression of the sacred and the promotion of the material vision of the world, the creation and promotion of a new anthropological matrix, the functionalization of knowledge, the privileging of the scientific method as the only meritorious in understanding and interpreting reality, the weakening of religiosity and giving a new role to religious education.

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