Full Description
This first issue of the Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Education makes the case for 'religion and education' as a distinct but cross-disciplinary field of inquiry. Authors argue for and outline the particular insights to be gleaned about 'religion and education' on the basis of their commitment to particular methodologies involved in its study, namely the historical, philosophical, sociological and psychological.
Contents
Religion and Education: Framing and Mapping a Field
Stephen G. Parker, Jenny Berglund, David Lewin and Deirdre Raftery
Abstract
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Introduction: Religion and Education: an Overview
Stephen G. Parker
1 Religion and Education: Beyond Curricula and Schooling, Multi-contextual, International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Religion and Education: Framing and Mapping the Field
Stephen G. Parker
1 Religion and Education in the Public Sphere
2 The History of Religion and Education as a Field of Inquiry
3 Types of Religious Education
4 Religious Education as Nurture into the Religious Way of Life
5 Religious Education as Practical Theology
6 Religious Education as Nation Building
7 Religious Education as Religious Literacy
8 Religious Education as Intercultural/Interreligious Education
9 Religious Education as Preparation for the Academic Study of Religion
10 Religious Education as an Idea
Themes and Approaches in Research on Religion in the History of Education: Missionaries, Monasteries, Methodologies
Deirdre Raftery
1 Introduction
2 God's Empire: the Mission Imperative in the History of Education
3 Monastic and Conventual Education: New Approaches in Historical Scholarship
4 Conclusion
Religion and Education: Mapping the Field (a Philosophical Approach)
David Lewin
1 Introduction
2 What Does It Mean to Ask about the Relations of Religion and Education in a Philosophical Way?
3 General Conceptual Issues
4 What Is Religion?
5 What Is Education?
6 Religion and Education: the Question of Autonomy
7 Conclusion
Sociological Perspectives on Religion and Education
Jenny Berglund
1 Historical and Definitional Overview: Sociology Defined
2 What Does It Mean to Adopt a Sociological Perspective?
3 Sociology of Religion
4 Sociology of Education
5 The Study of Religious Education, Religious Diversity, and Teacher Education
6 Quantitative vs Qualitative Research Methods
7 The Quantitative Approach
8 The Qualitative Approach
9 Quantitative Studies
10 Qualitative Studies
11 National Comparisons and International Knowledge Transmission
12 Conclusion
Conclusion: the Potential of Further Research in Religion and Education
Stephen G. Parker
1 Historicizing, Contextualising and Conceptualising Religion and Education and Religious Education
2 The Sensory, Spatial and Material Aspects of Religion and Education
3 Mission and Empire
4 Children's Rights and Agency in Religion and Education
5 Religious Education and Developments in Theology and Religious Studies
6 Conclusion: Achieving Cross/Inter-disciplinary Perspectives
Bibliography
List of English Language Journals in R & E and Their Websites
