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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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