TY - BOOK AU - Berglund,Jenny AU - Lundén,Thomas AU - Strandbrink,Peter TI - Crossings and crosses: borders, educations, and religions in Northern Europe T2 - Religion and Society, SN - 9781614516552 AV - BL980.E853 .C76 2015eb U1 - 200.947/09051 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Berlin, Germany, Boston, Massachusetts PB - De Gruyter KW - Religion and politics KW - Europe, Northern KW - Religious education KW - Religion et politique KW - Europe septentrionale KW - Éducation religieuse KW - RELIGION KW - Comparative Religion KW - bisacsh KW - Essays KW - Reference KW - Religion KW - fast KW - Religion och politik KW - sao KW - Religionsundervisning KW - Northern Europe KW - Nordeuropa KW - civic education KW - interdisciplinary studies KW - soft borders KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index; Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: On crossings and crosses -- The Russian Orthodox Church, its domains and borders -- Intertwining identities: The politics of language and nationality in the Estonian-Russian borderlands -- Multireligious and multiethnic public schooling in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland -- Visible conflicts on invisible borders: Religious antagonisms in the eastern borderland of Poland -- Shifting borders in religious education in Estonia -- Religious education on the borders -- Religion in contemporary public education in Russia -- Religious education in the European context -- Unpacking postnormativity in religious and civic education: Coming to an early end? -- Society, proximity, and education on the border -- The spatiality of religion -- Religious education (RE) in other kinds of bordertowns: Denmark as an extreme and exemplary case -- Index N2 - This volume critically explores the state of religious and civic life and politics on the margins of state spaces by analysing the themes of borders, education, and religions in northern Europe. It suggests that the formation of religious and civic identity through education is not becoming less parochial and more culturally open. It also challenges the idea that secular liberal democracies are by definition uninvolved in matters of faith UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=999672 ER -