Undermining Authority: The Representation of Buddhism and Discourse on Modernity in Religion Education Textbooks
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Undermining Authority: The Representation of Buddhism and Discourse on Modernity in Religion Education Textbooks - Textbook Violence |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Kai Nyborg; University of Tromso - The Arctic University of Norway; Norway |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | religious education; religious textbooks; violence and conflict; violence in religious textbooks; representation of religion; subjective textbooks |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | religious education |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | This chapter focuses on the representation of Buddhism in RE-textbooks for upper secondary school in Australia and Norway. I attempt to demonstrate that the textbooks take the majority religion – Christianity, as well as particular ideas, norms, values from the textbook national context, as point of reference in representing Buddhism. In analyzing the textbooks I use a discursive approach (Fairclough 1992, Laclau & Mouffe 1985/2001, Lincoln 2003) and perspectives from current theory of religion (C. Martin 2009, L. Martin 2014). The interpretative strategies involved in the representation of Buddhism have theoretical consequences. I argue from a perspective of postcolonial criticism (Said 1978/1993) that the presentations of Buddhism reproduce orientalist structures creating a dichotomy between eastern and western culture and society. I argue from a perspective of cultural theory (Bourdieu 1977/2005) that the textbooks perform symbolic violence in misrecognizing Christian language as cross-cultural and comparative, and the textbook authors own context and understanding, as adequate representing Buddhism. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 07-Aug-2017 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/30517 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.30517 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Textbook Violence |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
world, twentieth and twenty-first centuries |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |