Religious Education in Hong Kong Schools: Complexities and Multiplicity
摘要
This chapter explores the multifaceted nature of religious education in Hong Kong SAR, a city with rich international history and multiple identities. The city’s educational framework includes government-funded schools, institutions sponsored by religious organizations, fee-charging schools, and private local and international schools, each offering distinct approaches to religious education. Although government schools offer religious education subjects at junior and senior secondary levels, other schools can incorporate confessional teachings aligned with their sponsoring bodies in addition to the standard religious education curriculum. This paper highlights how variations in school operation and funding, coupled with the historical foundations of public education, contribute to a complex array of religious education curricula and educational experience. Ultimately, this analysis underscores the distinctive sacred-secular links inherent to Hong Kong’s religious education landscape. These links suggests that while the government can provide direction and guidance for a multifaith religious education this exists alongside more confessional approaches that cater for the diversity of religions within the city.