Water, blood and light (Regarding the relationship between religion and education)

Authors

  • Héctor Salinas Fuentes Universitat de Barcelona
  • Miguel Amorós Hernández Universitat de Barcelona

Keywords:

Western culture, education, conversion, kind of life, Raimon Panikkar, water, blood, light.

Abstract

The objective of this text is to explore the thesis that, in classical thought as well as in the Christian tradition, a central aspect is the proposal of a certain kind of life. In both cultures, religion is proposed as a way of life that aims at the full development of the self. In this sense, education and religion coincide in their teaching purposes. Briefly, religion and philosophy, and therefore also education, represent ways of life to be cultivated. The cultural interpretation schemes of Raimon Panikkar are used as a backdrop. We played with the metaphorical figures of water, blood and light, as similes for the periods of Western religion. Three time periods that may be considered simultaneous.

KEY WORDS: Western culture, education, conversion, kind of life, Raimon Panikkar, water, blood, light.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Issue

No. 23 (2014): gener-juny

Section

Monographic theme

License

The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.

On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:

  1. Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.
  2. Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.
  3. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.
  4. The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.
  5. The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.
  6. The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.