Challenges for Religious Education
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Challenges for Religious Education

Is There a Disconnect Between Faith and Reason?

  1. 124 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Challenges for Religious Education

Is There a Disconnect Between Faith and Reason?

About this book

Major social changes, especially as a result the more multicultural nature of society, have raised important issues about the teaching of religion and the rational basis of different religious faiths. Challenges for Religious Education addresses and critically examines these changes and asks where religious education and Faith Schools fit within secular society and indeed whether there is still a place for them at all.

Analysing what religious education could look like if it were considered from a wider 'world views' perspective that doesn't focus on a particular set of religious beliefs, this book considers the 'reasonableness' of holding a faith and therefore in teaching it; the ongoing tensions between faith and reason; arguments for and against the study of religious education; whether modern secular thought is itself an ideology; and the philosophical standpoints on the relationship between faith and reason.

Linking faith and reason with the issue of whether religious education is truly necessary in a modern world, Challenges for Religious Education is a crucial read for anyone interested in the future of religious education teaching in a secular society.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780367279073

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Teaching religious education: changing conceptions of RE
  9. 2 Faith: meaning and reasonableness
  10. 3 Belief in God: knowledge, evidence and assent
  11. 4 Understanding the nature of God
  12. 5 The moral dimension: has God got a place within it?
  13. 6 Spiritual development
  14. 7 Coping with doubt – and the problem of evil
  15. 8 Surviving the secular age?
  16. 9 The challenges for religious education
  17. 10 Indoctrination?
  18. Name Index
  19. Subject Index