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Religion as a Discipline -The Golden Link between School and Family
Religion as a Discipline -The Golden Link between School and Family

Author(s): Monica Valentina Șerbănescu
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Religion and science , Sociology of Religion
Published by: Asociaţiunea Transilvană pentru Literatura Română şi Cultura Poporului Român - ASTRA
Keywords: religion discipline; family; education; values;

Summary/Abstract: Education is a complex process because of its influence in child’s personalitydevelopment. Above all subjects, Religion is the queen, the spring of all values the students canlearn. Romanian society was separated from every religious act because of communism atheism.During the communism period, it was forbidden to speak about God and Religion within theschool. Beginning from 1990, the things changed and the exuberance of the freedom of language andthought continued, as was normal, with the re-introduction of Religion into school.the icons resumedtheir place in classrooms, the teachers started to transfer the values. Everybody agrees that thissubject influence beyond the classroom. Religion must be seen and treated as a link between schooland family, the values go within the family and change behaviors, attitudes and lives. Manystudent’s families transformed only as a influence of their children’ life changing through orthodoxvalues learned from school, from Religion hour, from Religion’s teachers. A lot of mothers andfathers started to fast because of their children, started to go to church to pray. It was a blooming ofspiritual life. Both the parents and children reinvent their life through Orthodoxy’s values. Thisphenomenon was supported by orthodox literature and by mass media.

  • Issue Year: VII/2019
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 105-111
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English