Overview
- The first book to bring together authors from the six continents to reflect and to share the studies on Catholic Religious Education
- Shows great breadth and depth of scholarship
- A key reference point for those involved in researching, planning and designing curricula for Catholic Religious Education
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Foundations
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Issues Emerging from the Context
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Keywords
About this book
This book covers theoretical aspects of Catholic Religious Education in schools and examines them from multiple theoretical and contextual perspectives. It captures the contemporary academic and educational developments in the field of Religious Education while discussing in detail the challenges that Religious Educators face in different European, Asian, African, Australian, American and Latin American countries. The edited collection investigates how to pass on a Catholic heritage as a “living tradition” in diversely populated schools and communities. In this way it explores and asserts the proper identity of Catholic Religious Education in dialogue with Catechetics and with the wider discipline of Religious Education.
As the different articles of this publication demonstrate - through a series of interesting and critical points of view - Catholic Religious Education is confronted with many challenges from the risk of marginalization to the confusion produced by a religious indifferentism leading to a strictly comparative or neutral method in the study of religions. It is essential to take into account in our research perspectives that Catholic Religious Education is not only a subject but also a mission in the light of the diakonia of truth in the midst of humanity
H.E. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect, Congregation for Catholic Education, Holy See, Vatican City
Religious education teachers cannot by themselves overcome the ills of society, but religious education...can help to create better citizens of the world as some authors argue throughout this collection. could not ask more from such timely and provocative collection. It is a gift to the profession and to Catholic Religious Education.
Prof. Gloria Durka, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA
Reviews
As the different articles of this publication demonstrate - through a series of interesting and critical points of view - Catholic Religious Education is confronted with many challenges from the risk of marginalization to the confusion produced by a religious indifferentism leading to a strictly comparative or neutral method in the study of religions. It is essential to take into account in our research perspectives that Catholic Religious Education is not only a subject but also a mission in the light of the diakonia of truth in the midst of humanity.
H.E. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect, Congregation for Catholic Education, Holy See, Vatican City
Religious education teachers cannot by themselves overcome the ills of society, but religious education...can help to create better citizens of the wolrd as some authors argue throughout this collection. could not ask more from such timely and provocative collection. It is a gift to the profession and to Catholic Religious Education.
Prof. Gloria Durka, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools
Editors: Michael T. Buchanan, Adrian-Mario Gellel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20925-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20924-1Published: 23 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37122-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20925-8Published: 05 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 305
Topics: Religion and Education, Curriculum Studies, Religious Studies, general, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Culture