ABSTRACT

This book, the first to explore religious education and post-modernity in depth, sets out to provide a much needed examination of the problems and possibilities post-modernity raises for religious education.
At once a general introduction to this topic and a distinctive contribution to the debate in its own right, Religion, Education and Post-modernity explores and illuminates the problems, and possibilities opened up for religious education by postmodern thought and culture. The book describes the emergence of post-modernity, considers the impact of post-modernity on religion, addresses its impact on the philosophy of religion and considers the nature of religious education in the post-modern world.
Andrew Wright argues that, although post-modernity has much to offer the religious educator, there are also many pitfalls and dangers to be avoided. Steering clear of the extreme of post-modern hyper-realism, he constructs a religious pedagogy sensitive to post-modern concerns for alterity, difference and the voice of the Other, whilst insisting on the importance of reasons in cultivating religious literacy.

chapter Chapter 1|8 pages

The enigma of post-modernity

part I|58 pages

Philosophy

chapter Chapter 2|13 pages

The legacy of modernity

chapter Chapter 3|14 pages

Post-modern foundations

chapter Chapter 4|15 pages

Alterity and anti-realism

chapter Chapter 5|15 pages

The promise of critical realism

part II|58 pages

Theology

chapter Chapter 6|13 pages

Deconstructing modern theology

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Radical a/theology

chapter Chapter 8|13 pages

The mystery of the world

chapter Chapter 9|16 pages

Religious orthodoxy revisited

part III|54 pages

Education

chapter Chapter 10|14 pages

Modern pedagogy

chapter Chapter 11|13 pages

Post/pedagogy

chapter Chapter 12|12 pages

Border pedagogy

chapter Chapter 13|13 pages

Critical pedagogy

part IV|53 pages

Religious education

chapter Chapter 14|14 pages

Modern religious education

chapter Chapter 15|13 pages

Deconstructing religious education

chapter Chapter 16|12 pages

Transcendence and transformation

chapter Chapter 17|12 pages

Critical religious education