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.

Knowledge, empowerment and religious authority among pious muslim women in France and Germany

Abstract: I n both France and Germany, as probably elsewhere in Europe throughout the 1980s and 90s, a sizable number of mosques and Muslim organizations opened their doors to women and started to provide prayers rooms, religious instruction, 1 and other services exclusively for female believers. In both countries the number of women benefiting from these services, in particular from religious instruction, has clearly reached that of male Muslims. 2

The Education of the Whole Child

Abstract: What is the education of the whole child? the educational climate and the children and worldviews project how we carried out the research children's experience of conflict and loss children's religious and scientific thinking the identity of "Asian" children taking children's stories to other children children and parental separation religious identity and children's worldviews the implications for education the implications for the classroom religious education and collective worship children's spirituality and our contemporary culture prospects for education.

Religious Segregation and the Emergence of Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland

Abstract: A distinctive characteristic of the education system in Northern Ireland is that most Protestant and Catholic children attend separate schools. Following the partition of Ireland the Protestant Churches transferred their schools to the new state in return for full funding and representation in the management of state controlled schools and non-denominational religious instruction was given a statutory place within such schools. The Catholic Church retained control over its own system of voluntary maintained schools, initially receiving only 65% of capital funding; however all grant-aided schools in Northern Ireland are now eligible for full funding of running costs and capital development. This paper highlights the emergence of a small number of integrated schools since the 1980s. Catholic and Protestant parents have come together as the impetus for these schools and this presents an implicit challenge to the status quo of church involvement in the management and control of schools. In practical terms the integrated schools have had to develop more inclusive arrangements for religious education, and legislation that permits existing schools to "transform" into integrated schools also presents new challenges for the society as a whole.

The madrassah challenge : militancy and religious education in Pakistan

Abstract: Foreword - Husain HaqanniIntroductionContextualizing Islamic Education in PakistanA Deeper Look at Pakistan's Islamic SchoolsMadaris and MilitancyGovernment ReformsConclusions and ImplicationsAppendicesIndex

A systematic review of the relationship between religion and attitudes toward transgender and gender-variant people.

Abstract: Background: Prejudice against transgender people is widespread, yet in spite of the prevalence of this negativity relatively little is known about the antecedents and predictors of these attitudes. One factor that is commonly related to prejudice is religion, and this is especially true for prejudice targets that are considered to be "value violating" (as is the case for transgender individuals). Method: In this paper, we present the findings of our systematic search of the literature on this topic and present the synthesized evidence. Our search strategy was conducted across five databases and yielded 29 studies (across 28 articles). Results: We found consistent evidence that self-identifying as with either being "religious" or as Christian (and to a lesser extent, being Muslim) was associated with increased transprejudice relative to being nonreligious (and to a lesser extent, being Jewish). Additionally, we found consistent evidence that certain forms of religiosity were also related to transprejudice - specifically religious fundamentalism, church attendance, and interpretations of the bible as literal (transprejudice was unrelated to religious education). Conclusion: Although this young, but important field of research is growing, more empirical exploration is needed to fully understand that nuances of the religion-transprejudice relationship.