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Reimagining the Landscape of Religious Education

Challenges and Opportunities

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Editors:
  1. Zehavit Gross

    1. School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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  • Focuses on thick and thin multiculturalism and ways of countering religious fundamentalism and extremism
  • Includes a focus on racism, prejudice and critical thinking
  • Suggests how to improve the pedagogy within religious education classes to meet criticisms of the system

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Changing Perspectives and Themes of the Landscape of Religious Education

    • Zehavit Gross
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Ongoing Debate: Enhancement of Worldviews and Life Orientation in Religious Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Study of Religious and Worldview Diversity in Public Schools: Contributions from the Council of Europe

      • Robert Jackson
      Pages 21-37

    3. ‘Playful Searching Truth’: An Exploration of the Role of ‘Life Orientation’ in a Plural World

      • K. H. Ina ter Avest
      Pages 39-54

    4. Worldview Identity Discourses in Finnish Religious and Worldview Education: Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion

      • Saila Poulter, Vesa Åhs
      Pages 55-72

    5. Reflections of Preservice Teacher Identity from Christian-based Institutions: What Matters?

      • Yune Tran, Amy Lynn Dee
      Pages 73-91

    6. The Outrageous Idea of Christian Student Affairs: How Christian Chief Student Affairs Officers Envision Their Practice

      • Theodore F. Cockle, Perry L. Glanzer, Elijah G. Jeong, Britney N. Graber
      Pages 93-108

  4. Minorities, Education and Alienation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Multicultural Learning Environments in Turkey: A New Challenge About Refugee Education

      • Aybiçe Tosun
      Pages 111-123

    3. Anti-religious Education or Preventing Religious Extremism?—An Examination of the Re-education Camps in the Uyghur Region of China

      • Dilmurat Mahmut
      Pages 125-145

    4. The Integral Link Between Islamic Education and Religious Education: A Bonhoeffer Reflection on the Urgent Task of Countering Jihadist Pedagogy

      • Terence Lovat
      Pages 147-159

    5. Testing the Contact Hypothesis in Interfaith Encounters: Personal Friendships with Sikhs Countering Anti-Sikh Attitudes?

      • Ursula McKenna, Leslie J. Francis
      Pages 161-180

    6. Disgust and the Limits of Reason: Countering the Fear of Contamination and Resistance to Education in a Post-modern Climate

      • Stephanie Lovett
      Pages 181-192

  6. Spirituality, Prayer, and Affective Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Prayer in Schools: In Search of a New Paradigm

      • Julian Stern, Eli Kohn
      Pages 237-252
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Keywords

About this book

This book brings together new thinking and research on religious education’s complex and evolving role in the multicultural, diverse postmodern era. It facilitates new realism and understanding of the current situation from empirical and reflective accounts relating to a variety of countries and political contexts, as well as providing innovative methodological approaches to the study of education and religion.

In different contexts around the world, at different levels of education, and from different theoretical lenses, religious education occupies a contested space. The ongoing, changing nature of the world due to increasing secularization, rapid technological change, mass immigration, globalization processes, conflict and challenging security issues, from inter to intra state levels, and with shifting geopolitical power balances, generates the need to reconceptualize where religious education is positioned. It claims that religious education on its own can be an agent of moral, social and spiritual transformation are disputed. There is significant controversy about whether special religious education, that is in-faith education, still has a role within the post-modern world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

    Zehavit Gross

About the editor

Professor Zehavit Gross is the dean of Faculty of Education at  Bar Ilan University in Israel. She is the Head of Graduate Program of Management and Development in Informal Education Systems and  holds the position of UNESCO Chair in Education for Human Values, Tolerance Democracy and Peace and is the Head of the Sal Van Gelder Center for Holocaust Instruction & Research, Faculty of  Education Bar-Ilan University. She was the past President of the Israeli Society for Comparative Education (ICES). In 2016, she was invited to the United Nations to participate and give an address in a special discussion on the future of Holocaust Education all over the world. Her main areas of specialization are peace education, interfaith and religious education and Holocaust education. Her research focuses mainly on socialization processes (religious, secular, feminine and civic) among adolescents. She is currently involved in four international research projects and is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney (NSW). She is the recipient of the  2016 Ursula Thrush Peace Seed Award of the American Montessori Society (AMS) and a research fellow at the  The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is also the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Religion& Education SIG at the American Education Research Association (AERA). She is the co- editor of the International Age Publishing (IAP) book series on Intercultural Education and International Perspectives. She has won an award (2018) from the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) to conduct a research on The Construction of a Reflective Culture of Remembrance among Arab and Jewish Students in Israel .She is also the recipient of the Good Work Award (2017) from the Association of Moral Education (AME) and the 2019 Rector award of the Israeli Good Hope for an outstanding research project with practical implications on her special program on conflict management between Palestinian and Jewish students in higher education in Israel. She won recently (2020) the Israeli Hope in Higher Education Award from Ben Gurion University. Her latest publication is Migrants and Comparative Education: Call to Re/Engagement (Brill/Sense, 2020) , Her book together with Prof. Suzanne Rutland entitled: Special Religious Education in Australia and Its Value to Contemporary Society was published by SPRINGER in 2021. She is the recipient of  the 2022 NSW Premier Award for Outstanding Contribution to Religious Education in Australia both in Theory and Practice.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reimagining the Landscape of Religious Education

  • Book Subtitle: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Editors: Zehavit Gross

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20133-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20132-5Published: 14 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20135-6Published: 14 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20133-2Published: 13 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 288

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Religious Studies, general, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Religion, International and Comparative Education

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