Whose Power?: Mediating Religious Education in Norwegian Textbooks 1945-1997

This volume examines textbooks in the school subject “Knowledge of Christianity” that were used in Norwegian schools between 1945 and 1997, with the aim of studying how their Christian content is mediated to their readers. It demonstrates how Lutheran thought constitutes the foundation for the school’s transmission of values in Norway, even as society becomes increasingly pluralistic and heterogeneous. The study of the textbooks shows how the textbook authors are shaped by their respective ...