Education, Religion and Society

Abstract

Part 1. Religious Education, Pluralism and Global Community Introduction 1. Religious Education and International Understanding 2. Intercultural Education and Religious Education: A changing relationship 3. The Contribution of Philosophy of Religion to Religious Education 4. The Teaching of Human Rights in Religious Education: The case of Genocide 5. Open Minds, Ongoing Heritage, Open Future: The educational theology of John Hull Part 2. Current Issues in Christian Education and Practical Theology Introduction 6. Christian Education and the Charge of Indoctrination: A German perspective 7. Telling a New Story: Reconfiguring Christian education for the challenges of the twenty-first century 8. The Concept of Relationship and its Centrality to Religious Education 9. Perceiving Self Deception in Teaching and Learning 10. From Conflict to Community 11. Does the Church Need the Bible? Reflections on the experiences of disabled people Part 3. Religious Education: Theory and Practice Introduction 12. Children as Theologians: Developmental psychology and inter-religious education 13. Strangeness in Inter-religious Classroom Communication: Research on the 'Gift to the Child' material 14. Playful Orthodoxy: Religious education's solution to pluralism 15. The Role of Dialogue in Religious Education: A Russian perspective 16. Is there a Place for Youth in Religious Education? 17. Religious Education and the Life-World of Young People: Psychological perspectives