Confessional Religious Education or Ecumenical Religious Education?
CRISTIAN SONEA, Confessional Religious Education or Ecumenical Religious Education? Case study on the Orthodox confessional school in Cluj-Napoca The present research undertakes matters concerning the religious education in Romania, by attempting to assess the contribution of such kind of education to the contemporary Romanian society. In addition, this research defi nes confessional religious education, as well as ecumenical religious education, thus justifying the option for a confessional religious education. Not only does the paper analyze the status of the religious education in Romania, as presented in a few educational laws, but also the concrete effects of the legislature, as captured in the history of the confessional orthodox school of Cluj-Napoca, presented as a case study. In the actual Romanian context, we opt for a confessional religious education, relying both on the theological principles that legitimate the participation of the Orthodox Church in the ecumenical movement and on the local particularities of the Romanian and Transylvanian orthodoxy in a pluri-ethnic and multi-confessional space. KEYWORDS: confessional education, ecumenical education, Romanian Law of National Education, ecclesiology, religiosity, orthodox confessional school in Cluj-Napoca CRISTIAN SONEA |