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Mindfulness Curriculum as Implicit Religion
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https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.32759Keywords:
Implicit Religion, Charles Taylor, Mindfulness, Religion and Education, Secularization, Edward BaileyAbstract
Mindfulness has become increasingly popular in western education: both as a pedagogical term and as a curriculum tool. Although promoters, with varying degrees of emphasis, claim that mindfulness in this context is non-religious, this paper challenges those assertions. Using Charles Taylor's arguments regarding belief and unbelief and his conception of fullness and Edward Bailey's conception of implicit religion, I contend that mindfulness as curriculum or as curriculum enrichment is a form of implicit religion.
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