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Article

Contested Professionalism and Spiritual Legitimization: Catholic Religious Education Teachers and the Theme of Spirituality in Contemporary Italian Schools

by
Guillaume Silhol
1,2
1
Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
2
MESOPOLHIS, Aix-Marseille University, 13007 Marseille, France
Religions 2024, 15(1), 130; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010130
Submission received: 6 October 2023 / Revised: 21 December 2023 / Accepted: 16 January 2024 / Published: 20 January 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Concept of Spirituality and Its Place in Contemporary Societies)
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Abstract

Based on observations and in-depth interviews with Catholic Religious Education teachers in Italy, this sociological study tackles “spirituality” as a register of legitimization in their professional settings. Compared with more established topics of “religious culture”, the motives of “spirituality” appear as a lesser category of justification in teachers’ discourse in two significant aspects: teaching about “spirituality” as a necessary component of human experience, and talking about their own relationship to “spirituality” as proof of sincere commitment and/or professionalism. Thus, in the context of teachers’ labor, “spirituality” constitutes an ambivalent category that can serve the purposes of Catholic institutions as well as forms of criticism of authority.
Keywords: spirituality; religious education; schools; professional legitimization; justification spirituality; religious education; schools; professional legitimization; justification

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Silhol, G. Contested Professionalism and Spiritual Legitimization: Catholic Religious Education Teachers and the Theme of Spirituality in Contemporary Italian Schools. Religions 2024, 15, 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010130

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Silhol G. Contested Professionalism and Spiritual Legitimization: Catholic Religious Education Teachers and the Theme of Spirituality in Contemporary Italian Schools. Religions. 2024; 15(1):130. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010130

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Silhol, Guillaume. 2024. "Contested Professionalism and Spiritual Legitimization: Catholic Religious Education Teachers and the Theme of Spirituality in Contemporary Italian Schools" Religions 15, no. 1: 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010130

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Silhol, G. (2024). Contested Professionalism and Spiritual Legitimization: Catholic Religious Education Teachers and the Theme of Spirituality in Contemporary Italian Schools. Religions, 15(1), 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010130

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