(EN) A paper by Eszter Neumann was published in the Q1 journal Religion, State and Society.
Abstract
Since 2010, Hungary’s authoritarian populist government has radically redefined church-state relations, promoting the governance narrative of building an ‘old-style Christian democracy’. Public education has been reconceptualised within a religious framework and outsourced to religious actors. This article explores how key religious organisations engage with the government’s religious populism and govern their expanding school networks. Given the immanent tension between nativist Christian-conservative identity politics and Christian teachings about the church’s social mission, I focus on how Christian church elites have engaged with the education of underprivileged communities. Four characteristic types of strategic involvement are identified based on church education policies and their legitimacy discourses concerning their (lack of) engagement with the social question. Despite using different approaches to navigate political pressures, both the nativist illiberal and inclusive liberal visions of religion and their corresponding policies have reinforced the structures of segregated education and legitimised the government’s education policy.
(HU) Megjelent Neumann Eszter tanulmánya a Religion, State and Society című Q1-es folyóiratban. A cikk az egyházi döntéshozók oktatáspolitikai narrativáit elemzi, és azzal foglalkozik, hogy milyen stratégiákat fogalmaznak meg a keresztény társadalmi misszió ellátására, illetve hogyan beszélik el az egyházak hatását, szerepvállalását az oktatási szegregáció fenntartásában illetve csökkentésében.
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