Lost Christianities in textbooks. A case study of the high schools in Rome specialising in classical studies.

Autor/inn/en	Candilo, Federica; Loré, Vito; Noce, Carla
Titel	Lost Christianities in textbooks. A case study of the high schools in Rome specialising in classical studies.
Quelle	In: RiMe - Rivista dell'lstituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea, 52 (2019) 1, S. 19-46 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben S. 39-45
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2035-794X
DOI	10.7410/1389
Schlagwörter	Methode; Schulbuch; Christliche Religion; Italien
Abstract	Religion today represents a field of interest that is extensively analysed in line with a variety of different approaches and methodologies. The teaching and educational sectors covering religion and the history of religions have also been invested by this renewed climate of interest, although they still today represent an object of peripheral inquiry. The spread of stereotypes and the distortion and partial interpretation of sources, erroneous knowledge and interpretations extraneous to the historical data, are topics on the agenda not only in the debate in civil society itself but also in niversity lecture halls. This presentation is the result of an investigation concerning the history of Christianity and conducted on the history textbooks most commonly used in the twenty-five grammar schools in Rome. It is the intention of the working group to extend the analysis to other secondary schools. The contribution intends to launch a reflection on the way in which secondary school textbooks resent Christianity, starting from three key themes, which are for various reasons significant: 1) the emergence of Christianity from its Jewish origins; 2) the existence of various forms of Christianity since ancient times; 3) the structuring of an ecclesiastical hierarchy and, in particular, the constitution of the pa.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2020/3