ABSTRACT
In the current climate, and in an age of increasing hostility towards religion and the study of religion, religious education is a much-debated area. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of contributors from the USA, Britain and Ireland, and Australia, representing a variety of religious perspectives, Does Religious Education Matter? provocatively demonstrates that it is vital that religious education is presented as it ’really’ is: a valuable and rich resource that, when taught and engaged with appropriately, stimulates essential qualities for global and responsible citizenship: critical thinking, tolerance, respect, and mutual understanding.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|44 pages
The distinctness of religious education
part II|118 pages
Religious education in the school context
chapter 5|11 pages
Living the questions
chapter 6|12 pages
Going below the surface of grow in love
chapter 9|16 pages
Religious education in Catholic second-level schools in Ireland today
chapter 11|11 pages
Reclaiming our ‘Own selves’
part III|92 pages
Exploring the potential of religious education