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To Teach SPR as a New Reading of the Book of Micah that Encourages Peace in Colombia: Case Studies in the Reformed Theological Seminary and the Suburb of Palmito
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Hector Hernan Molano Cortes – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Colombia has been immersed in wars and violence for many years; some scholars say that the country has been in conflict since 1962. The reality is that the country began its development with multiple wars and power struggles, the latter incited by political parties. In the midst of multiple conflicts, religion has played an important role in the…
Descriptors: Protestants, Theological Education, Foreign Countries, War
Deconfessionalising RE in Québec and Flanders: A Comparative Study
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Franken, Leni – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
Inspired by the comparative method for RE as outlined by Bråten, this article elaborates on some similarities and differences between the present RE system in Flanders (Belgium) and the past RE system in Québec (Canada). After a brief outline of the societal level, the focus will be on the institutional level, where international, national and…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Legislation
Subaltern Thinking in Religious Education? Postcolonial Readings of (German) Schoolbooks
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Winkler, Kathrin; Scholz, Stefan – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
This paper deals with the disclosure of subaltern thinking in current German-language textbooks for religious education. For the hermeneutical framing of this analysis, the approach of a postcolonial reading is particularly profitable. Obvious hierarchical relationships from clearly up and down can consequently be made visible and their presumed…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Racial Bias, Civil Rights, Cultural Pluralism
The Centre Cannot Hold: Decolonising the RE Curriculum in the Republic of Ireland
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Kieran, P.; Mc Donagh, J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
In Ireland primary RE is a fractured, contested, complex and changing territory devoid of a common language and characterised by a proliferation of syllabi and curricula generated for increasingly diverse school types. For centuries the dynamic decolonising process has led to a questioning of former orthodoxies and an attempted de-linking of the…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Course Descriptions, Postcolonialism, Critical Theory
Churches and Education. Studies in Church History. Volume 55
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Ludlow, Morwenna, Ed.; Methuen, Charlotte, Ed.; Spicer, Andrew, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
This volume brings together the work of a wide range of scholars to explore the long and complex history of the relationships between churches and education. Christianity has always been involved in education, from the very earliest teaching of those about to be baptised, to present-day churches' involvement in schools and higher education.…
Descriptors: Churches, State Church Separation, Christianity, Educational History
Developing a Black Christian Education of Liberation for the British Context
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Reddie, Anthony G. – Religious Education, 2003
This article details the work of the Birmingham Initiative, a Methodist inspired, ecumenical research project that operated in Birmingham, in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom between 1995 and 1999. As the Christian Education Development Officer employed by this project, the author undertook doctoral research among twenty-six inner-city,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Church Programs, Curriculum Development, Religious Education