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Subject(s)

• Religious education—Philosophy [Browse]
• Religious education of children [Browse]
• Religious education—Great Britain [Browse]
• Religious tolerance—Great Britain [Browse]
• Multiculturalism—Religious aspects [Browse]
• Multiculturalism—Great Britain [Browse]
• Liberalism (Religion)—Great Britain [Browse]

Series

Religion, education, and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book offers a study in the philosophy of liberal religious education. It argues for the importance of attending to questions of religious truth and concomitant questions of truthful living in the context of a pluralistic society." "Traditionally, religious education has been the process whereby a religious community or nation state transmits its core beliefs and values to its children. Across Europe and America this has largely involved the transmission of Christianity. With the emergence of multicultural societies, religious education has been transformed into a process whereby children are informed about different religious traditions, the primary task thereby becoming the moral one of nurturing the twin liberal principles of freedom and tolerance rather than teaching the established religious views."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-276) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Part I Concepts and context
• Truth and truthfulness
• Political liberalism
• Part II Nature and task of religious education
• Classical religious education
• Liberal religious education
• Critical religious education
• Part III Heuristic framework
• Ontology: the ultimate order of things
• Semantics: the language of life
• Hermeneutics: understanding reality
• Epistemology: wrestling with truth
• Part IV Theory and practice
• Pedagogy of learning.

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ISBN

• 9780708320570
• 0708320570

OCLC

154689833

RCP

H - S

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