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University Students' Religious Literacy and Religiosity. What Is the Place of Academic Discipline and Religious Affiliation?
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Mensah Eric; Francis Tabiri; Asare Danso Seth – Cogent Education, 2024
The study examined the influence of university students' religious literacy on their religiosity, while paying attention to their background characteristics such as field of study and religious affiliation. The urgency of this study lies in the fact that there seem to be numerous bizarre religious beliefs and practices that require people's…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Religion
'These Religions Are No Good -- They're Nothing but Idol Worship': Mis/Representation of Religion in Religious Education at School in Malawi and Ghana
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Matemba, Yonah; Addai-Mununkum, Richardson – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
This article draws data from two complementary studies in sub-Saharan Africa to highlight the problem of religious misrepresentation in (multi-faith) Religious Education (RE) at school in Malawi and Ghana. Employing Michael Apples' conception of selective tradition, the article is critical of the confrontational disputation inherent in the RE in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Misconceptions, Secondary School Students
Missionary Education in West Africa: A Study of Pedagogical Ambition
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Ustorf, Werner – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2011
The history of the North German Mission Society (established 1836 in Hamburg) and its activity on the West African coast (from 1847 onwards among the Ewe, in what is now Ghana and Togo where it was and still is known as the "Bremen Mission") mirrors neatly the various phases of the idea of "mission": its composite motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, War, Religion
The Inculturation of Holy Child Education: Actions Not Words.
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Bowman, Lorna M. A. – Religious Education, 1996
Discusses the educational philosophy of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and its impact upon the women of Nigeria and Ghana. This religious instruction allowed them to attain a liberated means of self-expression and leadership faithful to their cultural heritage as African women and their formation as Christians. (MJP)
Descriptors: African Culture, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Influences, Females