Guillaume Silhol,Politisation et requalification de la «culture religieuse«: une sociologie des controverses pédagogiques sur l'instruction religieuse en Italie (1974-1984)», Educational research, n°61, 2026, pp.8-22, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ree/13983

Article summary:

Analysing educational controversies as social processes requires us to consider both their direct effects and unrealized alternatives, as well as their institutional and political contexts. The case study of the controversies surrounding Catholic religious instruction in state schools in Italy, between 1974 and 1984, illustrates how groups and experts put forward reform proposals, confront them and win political allies. The failure of these various projects to modernise, deconfessionalise and abolish compulsory religious instruction shows the central role of collective action in translating these projects into the political arena, and the weight of the phases in which pedagogical expertise was put to use in the face of competition from religious law. Religious culture«, formalised by the revision of the Concordat between the Italian Republic and the Holy See in 1984, symbolises both the justification for maintaining the status quo and the effects of these conflicts.

Plan :

1. Religious education from Unity to the Republic
2. Political positions on IR, circulation and use between 1974 and 1984
   2.1. Controversies over corporate income tax and its alternatives
   2.2. From position statements to actions mobilising expertise
   2.3. The abortive inclusion of «religious culture» in educational reform projects
   2.4. The neo-conditional closure of alternative projects to religious instruction
3. Conclusion

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