How could the Norwegian RE subject express the presence of human rights thinking in Islam?

• Published in: British journal of religious education Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 14 - 22
• Main Author: Nestby, Dag Hallvard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 02.01.2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Civil Rights; Foreign Countries; Human rights; Intellectual Freedom; Islam; Minority Groups; Multicultural Education; Muslims; National Curriculum; Norwegian; Norwegian RE; Religion; Religious Education; Secondary Schools; Signposts; Textbooks; World Views; Norway

In this article I contribute to the scholarly discussion on how minority religions and world-views could be represented in the RE subject of Norwegian primary and lower secondary school. I will focus on Islam since Islam is the largest and - at the same time - most debated minority religion in Norwa...