Format:
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9783030687199
Content:
When the “great Agnostic” Robert Ingersoll wrote “day by day, religious conceptions grow less and less intense (and) day by day, the old spirit dies out of book and creed” in 1876, he was not alone in predicting the significant decline of Christianity in the United States and elsewhere. In the roughly 150 years since his words, and especially in the early twenty-first century, trends regarding religious observance and practice have gradually echoed his projections. According to the Pew Research Center (2019), Americans identifying as Christian declined 12 percentage points from 2009 to 2019 (from 77% to 65%), while the religiously unaffiliated (aka “the nones”) have risen 9% (from 17% to 26%) over the same period. Similar declines have taken place in Canada (Lipka, 2019). In 2018, 55% of Canadians identified as Christian while 29% identified as either atheist, agnostic, or no religious affiliation, whereas two-thirds of Canadians identified as Christian as recently as 2011 (Pew Research Center, 2013). Our study seeks to uncover the extent to which Christianity-themed discussions in the US and Canadian social science textbooks reflect these trends, and the extent to which these textbooks present Christianity as being an obstacle, catalyst, or non-factor in how each respective national society narrates its secular myths of modernity and progress.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 285-288
In:
Comparative perspectives on school textbooks, Cham : palgrave macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG, 2021, (2021), Seite 265-288, 9783030687199
In:
year:2021
In:
pages:265-288
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Kanada
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Sozialkundeunterricht
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Religion
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Moderne
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Schulbuch
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Schulbuchforschung
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Religiosität
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Denomination
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Christentum
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Fortschritt
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Gesellschaft
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Entwicklung
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Geschichte 1850-2010
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Aufsatz im Buch
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-68719-9_12
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