Religious Studies

What does it mean to live in a multifaith, globalized culture? How does different religions and cultural traditions coexist in now a days society? When did local religions become global institutions, and what role does religion play in the different European countries?

Religious studies is a mandatory, theoretical subject in Upper Secondary. It is taught in S6 and in S7. The subject introduces different faiths, religious pluralism and intercultural societies, multifaith-societies, secularization and religion in the media as in politics. 

Teaching 

In S6 students will follow a 2p course and thereby work with religious topics every week. 

In S7 the subject is taught on various project days – spread out on different days of the school year. 

The students will develop their academic competencies when they:   

• Express themselves in a professional language using relevant terminology.   

• Analyze religious and nonreligious opinions by using an inside and outside perspective.  

• Compare religious traditions by using the seven dimensions to understand religion by theorist Ninian Smart.   

• Study ancient religious texts.  

• Reflect upon, and discuss, the connection between religion and today’s secularized society – in a European and Global context.  

Exam 

In S6 the students will sit two b-tests a year in class. The test can be written or oral depending on the teacher’s choice of exam format.  

In S7 the students will sit two internal exams a year. The exams can be written or oral depending on the teacher’s choice of exam format.