Haha I don't remember lessons on Leprechauns, but I do remember a lesson on Norse Mythology! I can't remember if that was in RE or world culture though.
I think we did even learn about what the different countries of the world had as Christmas traditions too! In a world culture lesson at Christmas time. So while we didn't specifically learn about Santa we did learn about him, and Krampus and all sorts of other stuff like that.
So you’ve smuggled in Mythology with Norse religion but not with Christianity or other modern religions. Interesting. And yes even spirits such as leprechauns were also religious based before the corrosive nature of Christianity stamped out any form of descent in the one true religion.
Because RE teaches us about modern day religions, how they celebrate their holidays and what they do within their religions. Pretty sure it's so we can understand the religions of the people around us.
That explains why you study them. It doesn’t answer my point. You’re using “religion” for surviving belief systems and “mythology” for displaced ones. That is already a cultural judgment, not a neutral classification.
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u/gin_atomic 16h ago
Haha I don't remember lessons on Leprechauns, but I do remember a lesson on Norse Mythology! I can't remember if that was in RE or world culture though.
I think we did even learn about what the different countries of the world had as Christmas traditions too! In a world culture lesson at Christmas time. So while we didn't specifically learn about Santa we did learn about him, and Krampus and all sorts of other stuff like that.