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Religion as a Gift

A Pedagogical Approach to RE in St. Petersburg

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It all started in May 2000 when I crossed the border of Russia for the first time in my adult life to participate in a seminar on religious education at Kappel (Switzerland). I was invited by Walter Sennhäuser, a leader of RE-Network – an organization active at that time in building cultural bridges between Eastern and Western academic societies. There I met John Hull who led the seminar, and who changed in a few days not only my vision of the proper ways of teaching religion but also my view on the pedagogy as a whole.

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Kozyrev, F. (2012). Religion as a Gift. In: Avest, I.t. (eds) On the Edge: (Auto)biography and Pedagogical Theories on Religious Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-175-7_7

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