Teaching Religion, Teaching Truth

Jeff Astley is Director of the North of England Institute for Christian Education and Honorary Professorial Fellow in Practical Theology and Christian Education at Durham University, UK.Leslie J. Francis is Professor of Religions and Education at the University of Warwick, UK.Mandy Robbins is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Glyndwr University, Wales, UK.Mualla Selçuk is Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity and Head of Religious Education Teacher Training at the University of Ankara, Turkey.

«This is a high-calibre addition to the field, one that teachers and those involved in initial and in-service education in religious education should read with close attention.» (John Sullivan, Theological Book Review 25.1, 2013)

• Contents: Gloria Durka: Theology of Religions: Through the Looking Glass of US Roman Catholicism – Friedrich Schweitzer: Principled Pluralism and Theology’s Contribution to Religious Education: A Protestant Perspective – Mario O. D’Souza: Identity, Diversity, and the Common Good – Fernando A. Cascante-Gómez: Pluralist Latin American Liberation Theology: Theological Themes and Educational Challenges – Kath Engebretson: Interfaith Education in the Christian School – Mualla Selçuk: How Can Islamic Pedagogy Promote an Understanding of ‘Individualized Religion’? – Recai Doğan: An Ottoman Example of the Perception of Other Religions in Islamic Thought – Z. Şeyma Arslan: A Holistic Approach in Education from the Perspective of the Islamic Understanding of Human Beings – Elisabeth Arweck/Eleanor Nesbitt: The Interaction of the Major Religions at Microcosmic Level: Religiously-Mixed Families in the UK – Hans-Georg Ziebertz: The Catholic View on Religious Pluralism in Empirical Perspective – Marian de Souza: The Dual Role of Unconscious Learning in Engendering and Hindering Spiritual Growth: Implications for Religious Education in Pluralist Contexts – Leslie J. Francis/Mandy Robbins: The Theology of Religions and Psychological Type: An Empirical Enquiry among Participants at the Parliament of the World’s Religions – Üzeyir Ok: How Open is Muslim Youth to People of Other Faiths? – Jeff Astley: A Theological Reflection on the Nature of Religious Truth.