Introduction: Religious Education and the Notion of the Post-secular

Abstract

In the preface, we write that the non-confessional religious education that was introduced in Swedish schools during the 1960s was shaped in a distinctly modern intellectual space. The concept of the post-secular is a useful tool for describing how this intellectual space has undergone major changes and for drawing attention to some of the challenges facing religious education today. In this introductory chapter, we try to answer the question: What is the post-secular context of religious education?.