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A Dictionary of Religious Education pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
This Dictionary is concerned with religious education in every continent, and as
practised in many different faiths. It takes account of new developments
throughout the world, with a special focus on areas like Australia, North America
and Western and Scandinavian Europe, where RE research and teaching have
moved on apace. However, because of the complexity of the questions involved,
it has had to be rooted in one specific field of practice, and therefore provides
more information about British religious education than about any other a~rea.
The Dictionary concentrates on methods of teaching rather than the content
of what is taught - there are adequate accounts of that elsewhere. Entries fall
into four main categories: descriptions of the major religious teaching traditions
and of religious education in school; summaries of the philosophical, theological,
sociological and psychological understandings of religious education; outlines of
curriculum and teaching methods; and notes on some of the resources for the
teaching of religious education, A common assumption of the contributors, which
perhaps needs to be stressed to those comparatively unfamiliar with the scope
of the subject, is that religious education in its various forms is a lively and
enterprising discipline and activity.
Religious education is continually developing. For example, in the period
leading up to the production of the Dictionary there has been a new interest in
spirituality, in the use of art and computers in religious education, in the relation
of religious education to the personal and social development of pupils and in
more general life skills, humanities and pastoral programmes. None of this could
have been foreseen even five years beforehand. That this is the case and that
computers and video are increasingly used in religious education reflects some-
thing of the dynamism of the subject and commitment of innumerable teachers.
The range of contributors to the Dictionary is itself testimony to the geo-
graphical and intellectual diversity represented. The journey from British
humanism to Indian Jainism is long in every sense. For all this diversity contribu-
tors have been united in showing extraordinary interest in the project, and I am
grateful for their encouragement and friendship. Religious education is capable
of developing its own international multi-cultural fellowship.
Faith communities have an historic interest in teaching. In world terms they
constitute the major source of modern religious education. Some, like parts of
the Muslim community, have continued to use long established methods. Others
have developed new approaches in the light of recent psychological, educational
and theological insights. In parts of the world church, for-instance, there have
been renewed emphases on experience within the community of faith, the Bible
as a theological resource and catalyst, and on social and international issues as
being jointly central to the church s educational task. Developments of a different
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A Dictionary of Religious Education pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024