Education, Religion, and Ethics – A Scholarly Collection

Dr Dianne Rayson is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at Pacific Theological College, Fiji and formerly taught at The University of Newcastle and Charles Sturt University, Australia. With a Master of Public Health, she has worked in health policy and planning, community development, and crime prevention in Australia’s Northern Territory and in Papua New Guinea. She completed her PhD at Newcastle in 2017, supervised by Terence J. Lovat, focussed on the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in application to the issue of the climate crisis. She has published a book (Lexington Press) on this research, journal articles and book chapters, and provided national and international conference presentations on this and other contemporary issues. She is a climate change activist who believes that theology has a part to play in addressing the world’s ecological challenges in the Anthropocene.

• Foreword.- SECTION I: EDUCATION.- Chapter 1: Religious and Theological Knowing: A Post-Enlightenment Educational Lacuna.- Chapter 2: The Viva in Doctoral Examination: A Habermasian Dialogic Occasion.- Chapter 3: Reimagining Higher Education in and for the 21st Century: The Case for Integrative Education.- Chapter 4: Reimagining Values Education: Six Salient Concepts.- Chapter 5: Values-based Education for “At Risk” Students.- Chapter 6: Values Pedagogy as Educational Means of Reversing “the Clash of Civilizations”: An Islam versus the West Instance.- Chapter 7: Dialogue in Religious Education: Balancing Theological and Educational Approaches.- Chapter 8: Telling a Story of Faith: Rival Narratives and Dialogue in the Work of Religious Education.- Chapter 9: The Thinking of Habermas Undergirding Lovat’s Educational Model.- SECTION II: RELIGION and ETHICS.- Chapter 10: Bonhoeffer’s Practical Mysticism: Implications for Ecotheology and Ecoethics in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 11: Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Conversation with Islamic Scholarship.- Chapter 12: On the Significance of Histoire: Employing Modern Narrative Theory in Analysis of Tabari's Historiography of Islam's Foundations.- Chapter 13: Arab-West International Relations: Jordan's Quest for Peace and the Role of Habermas amid Israel's Proposed Annexation of Palestinian Lands.- Chapter 14: Multiformity and Dialogue in the Anglican Tradition: The Breakthrough of Communicative Action.- Chapter 15: Christian and Australian Indigenous Spiritualities of the Land.- Chapter 16: The Proportionality Principle in Ethical Deliberation: A Habermasian Analysis.- Chapter 17: Personhood, Autonomy, Death and Dialogic Consensus in Settings of Life-Supporting Biotechnology.- Chapter 18: From Pacifism to Tyrannicide: Considering Bonhoeffer’s Ethics for the Anthropocene.- Chapter 19: From the Golden Rule to the Platinum Rule: An Auto-ethnographic Account.- Chapter 20: Ethics or Etiquette in Academic Research: Honorandi causa LXX diem natalem Terentii Lovat.- TRIBUTARY ADDRESS.