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Challenges for Religious Education: Is There a Disconnect Between Faith and Reason? book cover

1st Edition

Challenges for Religious Education Is There a Disconnect Between Faith and Reason?

By Richard Pring Copyright 2020
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge
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Major social changes, especially as a result the more multicultural nature of society, have raised important issues about the teaching of religion and the rational basis of different religious faiths. Challenges for Religious Education addresses and critically examines these changes and asks where religious education and Faith Schools fit within secular society and indeed whether there is... Read more

Dedication; Introduction; 1. Teaching religion: changing conceptions of R.E.; 2. Faith: meaning and reasonableness.; 3. Belief in God: knowledge, evidence and assent.4. Understanding the nature of God.; 5. The moral dimension: has God got a place in it?; 6. Spiritual Development.; 7. Coping with doubt – and the problem of evil.; 8. Surviving the secular age?; 9. Challenges for religious education.; 10. Indoctrination?

 

Biography

Richard Pring is Emeritus Professor of Education, and formerly Director of the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, UK. His recent and relevant books include The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools (2018) and Thinking Philosophically about Education (2018) both published by Routledge.

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