Education, Religion and Society

Dennis Bates has lectured in, and held post of responsibility for, religious studies, religious education and continuing professional teacher education in the former Humberside College of Higher Education (now the University of Lincoln) and Manchester Metropolitan University. Recently retired, he is an honorary research fellow in the University of Birmingham School of Education. Gloria Durka is Professor of Religious Education at Fordham University, New York and has served as the President of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education.Frierich Schweitzer is Professor of Religious Education and Practical Theology at the Protestant Faculty, Tübingen University.

'For the quality of many of its individual essays...no less for the excellent editorial contributions by Dennis Bates, this book deserves the widest possible readership.' - British Journal of Religious Education

• Part 1. Religious Education, Pluralism and Global Community Introduction 1. Religious Education and International Understanding2. Intercultural Education and Religious Education: A changing relationship3. The Contribution of Philosophy of Religion to Religious Education4. The Teaching of Human Rights in Religious Education: The case of Genocide5. Open Minds, Ongoing Heritage, Open Future: The educational theology of John HullPart 2. Current Issues in Christian Education and Practical Theology Introduction 6. Christian Education and the Charge of Indoctrination: A German perspective7. Telling a New Story: Reconfiguring Christian education for the challenges of the twenty-first century8. The Concept of Relationship and its Centrality to Religious Education9. Perceiving Self Deception in Teaching and Learning10. From Conflict to Community11. 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 education13. Strangeness in Inter-religious Classroom Communication: Research on the ‘Gift to the Child’ material14. Playful Orthodoxy: Religious education’s solution to pluralism15. The Role of Dialogue in Religious Education: A Russian perspective16. Is there a Place for Youth in Religious Education?17. Religious Education and the Life-World of Young People: Psychological perspectives