ABSTRACT

The academic fields of religion and values have become the focus of renewed interest in contemporary thinking about human activity and its motivations. The Routledge International Handbook of Education, Religion and Values explores and expands upon a range of international research related to this revival. The book provides an authoritative overview of global issues in religion and values, surveying the state of the academic area in contributions covering a wide range of topics. It includes emerging, controversial, and cutting-edge contributions, as well as investigations into more established areas.

International authorities Arthur and Lovat have brought together experts from across the world to examine the complexity of the field of study. The handbook is organised around four key topics, which focus on both the importance of religion and values as broad fields of human enquiry, as well as in their application to education, inter-agency work and cross-cultural endeavours:

-The Conceptual World of Religion and Values
-Religion and Values in Education
-Religion and Values in Inter-agency Work
-Religion and Values in Cross-cultural Work.

This comprehensive reference work combines theoretical and empirical research of international significance, and will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics in the field of education.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

part I|68 pages

The conceptual world of religion and values

part II|124 pages

Religion and values in education

chapter 11|11 pages

Values and religion in education

An Australian view

chapter 12|11 pages

Why meditate?

An excursion towards a possible life-pedagogy

chapter 13|12 pages

Soul searching

Prayer and the process of education

chapter 14|10 pages

From ‘Islamic' values to ‘religio-secular' values in Muslim contexts

Educational Implications of a Conceptual Shift

chapter 15|14 pages

‘The cowl and the curriculum'

The new monasticism, values and schools

part III|90 pages

Religion and values in inter-agency work

chapter 17|13 pages

Religion and values

A review of empirical research

chapter 18|14 pages

Values and spirituality in social work

chapter 19|15 pages

Religion in the public sphere

chapter 21|12 pages

Human and religious values in society

A relativistic perspective

chapter 22|11 pages

Diverse political values

Human rights and global democracy

part IV|110 pages

Religion and values in cross-cultural work

chapter 26|15 pages

Education and religious authority

Six benchmark questions for framing an enquiry

chapter 27|11 pages

Educating for harmony in conflict settings

A case study

chapter 28|13 pages

Sibling rivalry between Islam and the West

The problem lies within

chapter 29|12 pages

Going beyond reason?

Variants of intertwining religion and law

chapter 30|11 pages

Ethics is an optics

The Levinasian perspective on value as primary

chapter 31|12 pages

Shari'ah values for modern societies

Analysis of contents and contexts