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The article, thus, reflects what Cathy Byrne named‘Jensen’s scientific approach’ to religion education.  \nKeywords: religion education, scientific approach to religion education, study-of-religion(s)  \n1 University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; [t.jensen@sdu.dk](t.jensen@sdu.dk).  \nJensenov znanstveni pristop k religijskemu izobraževanju  \nTim Jensen  \n• Sledeč izhodiščnemu programskemu povzetku ‘osnov’, avtor predstavi (s sklicevanjem na programske ‘minimalne predpostavke’ za znanstveno preučevanje religij(e)) svoje temeljne predpostavke in načela za na religiologiji temelječe religijsko izobraževanje, ki poteka v obliki v redniurnik umeščenega obveznega in povsem običajnega šolskega predmeta, poučujejo pa ga učitelji, izobraženi na religioloških oddelkih javnihuniverz. Ta prispevek osvetljuje tisto, kar je Cathy Byrne poimenovala‘Jensenov znanstveni pristop’ k religijskemu izobraževanju.  \nKljučne besede: religijsko izobraževanje, znanstveni pristop kreligijskemu izobraževanju, religiologija  \nProgrammatic ‘Fundamentals’  \n1) Religion is a human, cultural, social and historical phenomenon. 2) Granted that scientifically based knowledge of humankind, history (evolution too), nature, culture, social formation, identity formation, [etc. is](etc. is) considered essential and valuable knowledge, then scientifically based knowledge of religion(s) must be considered equally essential and valuable. 3) Religion(s) can, like other historical, social, and cultural phenomena, be scientifically researched, analysed, interpreted, and explained, – and the scientific research results can be ‘translated’ into teaching, at both the university and public school levels. 4) The production of valuable scientifically based knowledge of religion(s), leading to more and more qualified knowledge of humankind, history, evolution, culture, etc., can and must engage a variety of scholars from the natural, social, and human sciences. However, specialist knowledge of religion(s) has for more than a century been pursued by scholars at specific university departments for the study of religion(s).These departments are still a sine qua non for a concerted and strategic scientific study of religion.2 5) If scientifically produced knowledge of humankind, nature, and culture, including religion, is considered to be of scientific and cultural value and, therefore, to be funded by the state, then this state-funded research and knowledge must be shared with the public at large and not kept as a ‘professional secret’ among scholars within academia. 6) For a state to ensure that this valuable knowledge is shared with society at large, it must ensure that public school education reflects and transmits the knowledge produced at the public universities.  \n7) Though knowledge of religion(s) can and must be sought and produced by a series of sciences and also taught and touched upon in school subjects such as history, literature, and in the natural and other social sciences subjects, a specific time-tabled compulsory and totally normal school subject – study-ofreligion(s)-based religion education (RE)– taught by teachers educated at the study-of-religions departments must be established. Only in this way can the state ensure that teaching about religion(s) in school is as scientifically based as is the teaching of other school subjects. 8) By providing a scientific study of  \n2 In this article, the author refers indiscriminately to ‘scien","cbCaijIXbQQMU0Xf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijIXbQQMU0Xf","pdf",235026,21,"English","# Programmatic ‘Fundamentals’\n## Religion as a human, cultural, social, and historical phenomenon\n## Scientifically based knowledge of religion(s) and its teaching potential\n## University study-of-religion(s) departments and state-funded sharing\n## Establishing a compulsory time-tabled school subject based on study-of-religion(s)","[{\"question\":\"What main idea does the article advance for religion education?\",\"answer\":\"Religion education should be based on a scientific study of religion(s), structured as a compulsory and normal school subject taught by teachers trained in study-of-religion(s) departments.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the “fundamentals” the author uses as a starting point?\",\"answer\":\"The text presents core claims that religion(s) are human and historical phenomena and that scientifically based knowledge about religion(s) is essential, valuable, and can be translated into teaching.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article emphasize a role for the state?\",\"answer\":\"Because state-funded scientific research must be shared with society, and public school education should reflect and transmit knowledge produced at public universities.\"}]","‘Jensen’s Scientific Approach’ to Religion Education - Key presuppositions | PDF",53]