« It has been proven that an objective and detailed knowledge of holy texts as well as their own traditions leads many young fundamentalists to shake the tutelage of fanatical, sometimes ignorant or incompetent authorities. »
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Régis Debray
Religious teaching in secular schools |
Régis Debray
Religious teaching in secular schools
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« The Republic does not have to arbitrate between beliefs, and the equality of principles between believers, atheists and agnostics is a fortiori valid for confessions. »
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Régis Debray
Religious teaching in secular schools |
Régis Debray
Religious teaching in secular schools
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« And it is here that the history of religions can take on its full educational relevance, as a means of connecting the short to the long term, by rediscovering the sequences, the long engenderings specific to humanitude, which tends to erase the audiovisual sphere, repetitive apotheosis of the moment. For what we call, probably wrongly, inculture among the younger generations is another culture that can be defined as a culture of extension. It gives priority to space over time, to the immediate over time, drawing the best share of new technological offerings (sampling and zapping, cult of the direct and the immediate, instant editing and ultrafast journeys). »
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Régis Debray
Religious teaching in secular schools |
Régis Debray
Religious teaching in secular schools
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