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From being on the margins of scholarly debate for much of the past century and a half, religion is being recognized once again as an area of concern for scholars, politicians, and public policy makers, and thus, the role of religious and spiritual education has taken on a new importance. Apart from its socio-political ramifications, the place of religiousness and spirituality in the make-up of individuals has been given renewed prominence through updated brain science, and neuroscientists regularly refer to elements of this brain science in terms such as spiritual intelligence and even mystical consciousness.
This book explores many of the new directions being taken in the field of religious and spiritual education, as new developments challenge the priorities of formal education, and open up new avenues for incorporating religion and spirituality into the modern curriculum. It asks whether the educational aims of teachers should be focused on specifically personal development, or whether religious education should be used to develop understanding of more global and social issues such as citizenship, conflict, and ethics. The book also addresses neuroscientific insights, which suggest a need to engage with cognition and emotion in order to create a rich learning environment, something to which a particularly contested subject area like religion and spirituality is well-placed to contribute. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Beliefs & Values.
Contents
Introduction 1. The development and dissemination of Council of Europe policy on education about religions and non-religious convictions 2. The potential impact of the neurosciences on religious and spiritual education: ramifying from the impact on values education 3. Pupils' views of religious education in a pluralistic educational context 4. What should religious education in Germany be about and how does religiosity fit into this picture? An empirical study of pre-service religious education teachers' beliefs on the aims of RE 5. Creating metacognitive environments in primary school RE classrooms 6. The core of religious education: Finnish student teachers' pedagogical aims 7. Altruistic values in children's spirituality: a study of children's responses to the terror attacks in Oslo and on Utøya and issues of education 8. The Little Prince - an introduction to spirituality: a moving experience in religious education for primary school children in a secularised world 9. Prayer as a cause of recovery from illness 10. Religious and spiritual education in disability situations in Italy 11. Towards international comparative research on the professionalisation of Religious Education 12. Measuring religious social capital: scale properties of the modified Williams Religious Social Capital Index among Friends of cathedrals
