Religious education

About: Religious education is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9554 publications have been published within this topic receiving 65331 citations. The topic is also known as: faith-based education & RE.

Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism

Abstract: Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida and Yusuf al-Qaradawi in the Arab Middle East and a number of scholars belonging to the Deobandi orientation in colonial and contemporary South Asia, this book examines some of the most important issues facing the Muslim world since the late nineteenth century. These include the challenges to the binding claims of a long-established scholarly consensus, evolving conceptions of the common good, and discourses on religious education, the legal rights of women, social and economic justice and violence and terrorism. This wide-ranging study by a leading scholar provides the depth and the comparative perspective necessary for an understanding of the ferment that characterizes contemporary Islam.

Religion, Education and Post-Modernity

Abstract: 1. Introduction Part 1. Philosophy 2. The Legacy of Modernity 3. Post-Modern Foundations 4. Alterity and Anti-Realism 5. The Promise of Critical Realism Part 2. Theology 6. Deconstructing Modern Theology 7. Radical A/Theology 8. The Mystery of the World 9. Religious Orthodoxy Revisited Part 3. Education 10. Modern Pedagogy 11. Post/ Pedagogy 12. Border Pedagogy 13. Critical Pedagogy Part 4. Religious Education 14.Modern Religious Education 15. Deconstructing Religious Education 16. Transcendence and Transformation 17. Critical Religious Education.

Islamic Education and Civil Society: Reflections on the "Pesantren" Tradition in Contemporary Indonesia.

Abstract: Since the events of September 11, 2001, Islamic institutions of learning have received much attention. Indonesia’s pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) have been increasingly described as fostering radicalism and violent militancy, particularly in light of purported links between a few of the country’s pesantren and some of the perpetrators of recent violence, such as the 2002 bombing in Kuta, Bali. On the whole, media coverage has been negative. In its September 2003 issue, for example, the Journal of Asian Affairs alleged, “Like Pakistan’s madrassa, there exists an entire education system, the ‘pesantren’, which is independent of the government and provides the Islamists fertile ground to train the children of the poor in the mould of radical Islam.” Notably, Pondok Pesantren Al-Mukmin in Ngruki, which is close to the Central Javanese city of Solo, has been mentioned repeatedly in the international press and was also implicated by an International Crisis Group (ICG) report as the center for a network of militant Muslims in Indonesia with suspected links to al-Qaeda. In light of these allegations, the question about the possible civilityenhancing role of Islamic education may seem counterintuitive. How does Islamic education deal with such issues as antiviolence, interfaith and interethnic tolerance, pluralism, secular institutionalization, human rights, gender equity, democracy, and political and social justice? This article answers some of these questions based on an analysis of ethnographic data collected during fieldwork in 2004 and 2005. At its center are a case study of Pesantren AlMuayyad Windan, Solo, and an evaluation of this institution’s contribution to Indonesia’s emerging democratic civil society. Al-Muayyad Windan was founded in 1996 as a pesantren for students (pesantren mahasiswa) with a special emphasis on community development (pengembangan masyarakat). The focus

Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities

Abstract: Introduction: Liberalism and the Dilemma of Public Education in Multicultural Societies COSMOPOLITANISM, LIBERALISM, AND COMMON EDUCATION 1. Teaching Cosmopolitan Right 2. Liberal Education: The United States Example 3. Pluralism, Personal Identity, and Freedom of Conscience 4. Between State and Civil Society: European Contexts for Education 5. The Burdens and Dilemmas of Common Schooling 6. Should We Teach Patriotic History? LIBERALISM AND TRADITIONALIST EDUCATION 7. Comprehensive Educations and the Liberal Understanding of Autonomy 8. Citizenship as Identity, Citizenship as Shared Fate, and the Functions of Multiculatural Education 9. Civic Friendship and Democratic Education 10. Schooling and Cultural Maintenance for Religious Minorities in the Liberal State LIBERAL CONSTRAINTS ON TRADITIONALIST EDUCATION 11. Multicultural Accomodations in Education 12. 'Mistresses of Their Own Destiny': Group Rights, Gender, and Realistic Rights of Exit 13. Multinational Civic Education 14. Religious Education in Liberal Democratic Societies: The Question of Accountability and Autonomy 15. Liberalism and Group Identities