Catholic Religion Teaching as learning into religion for intercultural and inter-religious education

Abstract

This article reflects on how the teaching of the Catholic religion (Irc) can cope with the intercultural issue of religious pluralism within the Italian school system. The theme of confessionality, understood as a theological dimension within the epistemological status of the discipline and as a link between a teaching and a religious community, from a pedagogical point of view, can be a resource for an authentic interreligious dialogue in the school, while maintaining distinct the aims of religious education and intercultural education.