Original scientific paper

Religious Education of Children in a Traditional Culture

Adnan Tufekčić orcid.org/0000-0003-0145-1308 ; Faculty of Philosophy in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Department of pedagogy and psychology

Abstract

The paper presents the results of a fi eld etnopedagogical research related to the most important features of religious education of children in a traditional culture in the fi rst half of 20th century. The research was done in the area of the mountain Majevica, in a group of villages: Straza, Jasenica and Zahirovici in Northeast Bosnia. Religious education in a traditional society was complementary to motherly education. As the most important carrier of religious content and implicit religious ideas, mother also appears as the most important factor in religious education during the earliest period of her child’s life. During middle and late childhood along with mother, other adult persons (father, hodza – Muslim priest, rector – priest of the Serbian Orthodox parish) are involved in children’s religious education. Religious education processes in a traditional, rural Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture were based on encultural and acultural moments.

Keywords

etnopedagogy; Majevica mountain; religious education; traditional Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture

Hrčak ID:

99756

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/99756

Publication date:

26.3.2013.

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