Full Description
In order to draw out the relationship between publicly-oriented Christianity and education, this book demonstrates that education is an important method and prerequisite of public theology, as well as an urgent object of public theology research's attention. Featuring work from diverse academic disciplines—including religion education, theology, philosophy, and religious studies—this edited collection also contends with the educational challenges that come with the decline of religion on the one hand and its transformation and regained public relevance on the other. Taken together, the contributions to this volume provide a comprehensive argument for why education deserves systematic attention in the context of public theology discourse, and vice versa.
Contents
1 Introduction
Manfred L. Pirner
PART I
Fundamental Perspectives for Relating Public Theology and Education
2 Reflexivity and Rapprochement: Explorations of a "Postsecular" Public Theology
Elaine Graham
3 Public Theology and Liberal Education
Hanan A. Alexander
4 Public Religious Pedagogy - An Emerging New Paradigm?
Manfred L. Pirner
5 Educational Justice as Subject Matter of Public Religious Pedagogy
Bernhard Grümme
6 Public Theology and Public Education in the City: a U.S. Perspective
Katie Day
7 The Biblical Wisdom Tradition for Public Theology and Its Consequences for Public Education
Sebastian Kim
8 The Comenius-Institute - Promoting Educational Discourse and Practice in the Spirit of Public Theology
Peter Schreiner
PART 2
Challenges of Public Theology for Ethical Reasoning and Learning
9 Politics of Dignity: a Bridge between Public Theology and Economy
Ulrich Hemel
10 Good Decision-making in the Field of Business. A Discussion of the Challenges to and Opportunities Offered by Public Religious Education
Birte Platow
11 Leadership Development: a Field for Public Theology?
Willem Fourie
12 "You Shall not Make for Yourself a Carved Image". Positive Inspiration for an Ethics of Journalistic Images from the Perspective of Public Theology
Florian Höhne
PART 3
Religion in Public Education. Tasks, Challenges and Controversies
13 The Theological Lacuna in Australian RE: Closing the Gap with a Re-constructed Public Theology
Terence Lovat
14 Religious Studies in Public Education: Promoting Critical and Appreciative Perspectives on Self, Society, and Nature
Bruce Grelle
15 Lost in Translation? Talking Religion at School and in the Public Space
Thomas Wabel
16 Falling Through the Net: The Digital Divide as a Challenge for Public Theology, Global Learning and Religious Education
Henrik Simojoki
17 The Politicisation and Securitisation of Religion in Education: A Response to a Rejoinder
Liam Gearon
18 Politicisation and Securitisation? The REDCo Project and the Toledo Guiding Principles
Robert Jackson
19 We Need Religious Educators as Public Intellectuals. A Manifesto
Siebren Miedema
