Enabling children to learn from religions whilst respecting their rights: against monopolies of influence

Anca Gheaus*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

John Tillson argues, on grounds of children’s well-being, that it is impermissible to teach them religious views. I defend a practice of pluralistically advocating religious views to children. As long as there are no monopolies of influence over children, and as long as advocates do not use coercion, deceit, or manipulation, children can greatly benefit without having their rational abilities subverted, or incurring undue risk to form false beliefs. This solution should counter, to some extent, both perfectionist and antiperfectionist reasons against initiating children into religions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)120-127
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Philosophy of Education
Volume58
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jan 2024

Keywords

  • children
  • domination
  • nonparents
  • parents
  • religious education
  • value formation

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