ABSTRACT

This volume explores numerous themes (including the influence of ethnography on religious education research and pedagogy, the interpretive approach to religious education, the relationship between research and classroom practice in religious education), providing a critique of contemporary religious education and exploring the implications of this critique for initial and continuing teacher education. 

part |63 pages

Part I Ethnography, Religion and Education

part |45 pages

Part II Student Perspectives

part |46 pages

Part III Pedagogy and Religious Education

part |43 pages

Part IV Theoretical Perspectives

chapter |15 pages

12 ‘Can You be a Muslim and not Believe in God?'

How Fluid or Solid are Religions? Introducing Viscosity to the Interpretive Approach