Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32701/dp.19.1.3
Unlimited life. A theological perspective for religious education on the contemporary life of youth.
David Novakovits
; Institut für Praktische Theologie Fachbereich Religionspädagogik und Katechetik Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät Wien
Abstract
Religious education is situated on the threshold between the environment of students and theology. As a commuter across these borders, religious education knows about the dialectical relation and importance of transgression and protection of borders. The article focuses on the risks of unlimited life, which can be related to a lack of capacity of orientation like the sociological phenomenon of the so-called “existentially-indifferent youth” is showing. The second part tries to connect these analyses with the literary phenomenon of the zombie, as the particular figure of transgressing the ultimate border (the death) and still living – without borders. In the third part, the article asks for the theological points of contact for religious education and tries to explain the potential of religious education in the context of a youth which is struggling with the necessary transgression of borders and the living in a situation, where borders are more and more eliminated.
Keywords
Religious Pedagogics; adolescent live style; zombie; philosophize and theologize with children and adolescents
Hrčak ID:
192433
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Publication date:
15.12.2017.
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