RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN A SECULAR SOCIETY

At the beginning of the third millennium the human society came with a new and complex challenges: secularisation and globalization which involves new sets of national values which are compared with secular values with which society has become accustomed and now go beyond national borders. Living in the new global village, a Europe in which borders seem to disappear, where EU laws become rules to be followed for Member States, the EU values extended throughout the whole continent. Globalization can be considered a phenomenon which goes beyond the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers, bringing touch in to different fields: social, moral, religious, scientific, and political and this is not an easy process. The globalisation is process is highly complex, dynamic and continuous. The educational process achieved in national contexts, but with a real openness to the world, to the values and challenges from beyond the national culture, education itself is a process with globalization trends are seen. Education is the social phenomenon complex that involves two categories of actors: educators and learners. The educational process ensures values' transfer from an old generation to a new one, In this regard, we must be aware that both educators and pupils change from one generation to another, from this point of view the educational process, the curriculum, the pupils' needs and the teaching methods of teachers are in constant change. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK