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Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality
How should schools deal with religions in matters of curriculum, procedure and policy? As Western society becomes increasingly multicultural in character, schools must reassess the provision of religious education and look at how they might adapt in order to accommodate students' diverse experiences of plurality. This book offers a critical view of approaches to the treatment of different religions in contemporary education, in order to devise approaches to teaching and learning, and to formulate policies and procedures that are fair and just to all. Beginning with a contextual overview of the religious, social and cultural changes of the past fifty years, the book goes on to illuminate and ...
Praxis of Retelling Parables and Miracles
A bible theological didactic is not principally reduced to learning and teaching Bible alone but rather extended to understanding and interpreting Bible in one's own religious and pedagogical context. Bible didactic, moreover, does not circumscribe itself only to biblical knowledge in virtue of deducing some abstract and moral principles, but it rather prospects to strengthen and reconstruct one's identity within the choices offered by culture and context. This book aims to engage in an intercultural interpretation of the parables and the miracles of Jesus by dialoging with the culture of Tamils. This comparative study subsequently proposes an alternative synchronic hermeneutic in biblical d...
Religious Education
This book provides tutors, students and teachers with a basis for developing their thinking about Religious Education, its place in the curriculum and an effective means for its delivery in schools.
Spiritual Education
Twenty-one selected papers from the First International Conference on Children's Spirituality, held in Chichester, England, are arranged in sections focusing on religious and theological, psychological and anthropological, and pedagogical approaches to the subject. A sampling of topics: the nonverbal nature of spirituality and religious language; youth spirituality as a response to cultural crisis; spirituality versus individualism; the prospects of spirituality in a globalized, technological world; and spirituality and the notion of citizenship in education. The writing is academic but accessible to the general reader. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
Teach Yourself Buddhism
As the popularity of Buddhism has stretched across the globe, the religion has taken on many forms, which are now present in the West and growing in variety. Teach Yourself Buddhism examines this historical journey, illustrating the persistent relevance of Buddha's teachings. Drawing on varied sources to evoke the spirit of Buddhism and to allow Buddhists to speak for themselves, the book provides in-depth coverage of the diversity of Buddhism and Buddhist practices. This new edition also provides an insightful examination of the role of Buddhism in the modern world.
Does Religious Education Have a Future?
The place of religion in the modern world has changed significantly over the past two decades. This has been partially reflected in the academic study of religion, but little, if at all, in religious education. In addition, the place of RE in schools has been the subject of intense debate due to changes to the curriculum and school structure, as well as being part of wider debates on religion in the public sphere. Written by two highly experienced leading practitioners of RE, Does Religious Education have a Future? argues for a radical reform of the subject based on principles of pedagogy set free from religious concerns. It challenges teachers, researchers and educators to rethink their app...
The Education of the Whole Child
Are the needs of children catered for by current educational systems? Is it important to seek or act upon the opinions of children? These fundamental questions prompted a team of researchers to set up the Children and Worldviews Project, and this illuminating book is an account and an evaluation of that work. The children in the study are encouraged to talk about a range of issues, from religion and science to conflict, loss and parental separation. Their discussions - always open and often surprising - are reproduced at length, before being analysed with clarity and intelligence. The Education of the Whole Child is a sympathetic and positive work which will inform teachers and others involved in educational policy and management of the contributory role children are able to play in education.
Buddhism
Teach Yourself Buddhism Fourth Edition is a scholarly yet accessible guide to this major world religion. In this fully up-dated and modernised edition, you can learn all about the Buddha and his teachings and explore the practicalities and principles of Buddhist life. This book will teach you about the history of Buddhism, its place in the world today and its exciting future.
