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Mar 2, 2021 · The Norfolk Locally Agreed Syllabus defines religious literacy is ‘how well pupils are able to hold balanced and well-informed conversations about religion and worldviews.’ (P5) It advocates equipping the pupils to go beyond – whilst still embracing – personal reflection and academic excellence, becoming significant, independent, participants in the world in which they find themselves.
In 1981, The American Academy of Religion published Public Education Religion Studies: An Overview by lead editor Professor Nicholas Piediscalzi, who since the 70s had operated the Public Education Religion Studies Center at Wright State University. AAR had a program group devoted to this subject for a number of years; it disbanded and reformed in the last 15 years as the program group ...
Nov 10, 2023 · This paper calls for better integration between the fields of Theology and Religious Studies (TRS) and Religious Education (RE). Positive reform in RE requires integration between educational theory, policy, and practice, but we argue that the academic study of theology and religion is too often an overlooked partner in these conversations. The separation of TRS from RE is damaging at all ...
The academic study of religion uses multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary methods because of the nature of religion and the interaction between religious practice and religious studies. Prior to modernity, the study and practice of religion were integrated and separate disciplines were often assumed to study a unified subject.
KW - Religious Education. KW - primary and secondary education. KW - study of religion(s) KW - non-religion. M3 - Article. SN - 2516-6379. VL - 1. SP - 8. EP - 28. JO - Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) JF - Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) ER -
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education. Religion provides spiritual returns and more earthly social returns. The very distinct nature of these two aspects of religion can create oddities like the micro-macro switch in the education religion relationship. Education is linked both to the formation of ideological beliefs and to social involvement (Putnam, 2000).
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Nov 2, 2023 · Thirdly, ‘religion’ even fails to capture the nuances of the relationships of religious adherents to their traditions which arguably arises from a new kind of diversity—that of a condition whereby people can pick and choose all kinds of elements from religious and non-religious traditions in an exercise of bricolage (Skeie, 2002). Instead of ‘religion’, ‘worldview’ may be useful ...
