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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.
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TL;DR: In this article, the compatibility of science and religion is examined and it is shown that science and religious education are not only different but in fact incompatible, at the doctrinal, metaphysical, methodological and attitudinal level.
Abstract: This paper tackles a highly controversial issue: the problem of the compatibility of science and religion, and its bearing on science and religious education respectively. We challenge the popular view that science and religion are compatible or even complementary. In order to do so, we give a brief characterization of our conceptions of science and religion. Conspicuous differences at the doctrinal, metaphysical, methodological and attitudinal level are noted. Regarding these aspects, closer examination reveals that science and religion are not only different but in fact incompatible. Some consequences of our analysis for education as well as for education policy are explored. We submit that a religious education, particularly at an early age, is an obstacle to the development of a scientific mentality. For this and other reasons, religious education should be kept away from public schools and universities. Instead of promoting a religious world view, we should teach our children what science knows about religion, i.e., how science explains the existence of religion in historical, biological, psychological and sociological terms.
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TL;DR: In the late 1990s, literature on Islamic schools focused on the characteristics and impact of the education received in relatively contemporary Qur anic schools, much of it from Morocco as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In the late 1990s, literature on Islamic schools focused on the characteristics and impact of the education received in relatively contemporary Qur anic schools, much of it from Morocco. There was also a whole body of historical research on Islamic education, mainly focused on institutions of higher education rather than on elementary education, again, with Morocco well represented. Madrasas, kuttabs (preschools), Qur anic schools—Islamic schools all—existed long before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the resulting, very explicit politicization of religious education that began to occur in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1980s and certainly long before hijacked airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, in the United States on September 11, 2001. However, after those critical events, issues related to Islamic schools grew from a relatively academic area of study within the fields of education, Islamic studies, and Middle Eastern studies to encompass a more heated public debate, both in the West and in Islamic countries, on the role of these schools in the growth of terrorists groups calling themselves Islamic. In recent years, the purpose and methods of Islamic schools have received increased scrutiny from non-Muslim and Muslim leaders as well as the West-
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: The advantages of reading are not only for you, but also for the other peoples with those meaningful benefits as discussed by the authors. But reading is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time, it is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages.
Abstract: No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading taking religion seriously across the curriculum is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages. The advantages are not only for you, but for the other peoples with those meaningful benefits.
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01 Sep 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a brief history of Islam in the Netherlands and its relationship with government, society and Islam at the national and international level, as well as an international comparison with Belgium, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Abstract: Preface 1. Western Europe and its Islam Part One. The Netherlands: The Institutionalization and recognition of Islam at the national level 2. Government, society and Islam: a brief history 3. The sphere of religion 4. The sphere of education 5. Politics and other spheres 6. Conclusions at the national level Part Two. The Institutionalization of Islam and the struggle for recognition at the local level 7. Recognition as partners in the political debate 8. The establishment and funding of places of worship 9. Islamic religious instruction in state primary schools 10. The establishment of Muslim schools 11. Conclusions at the local level Part Three: An international comparison 12. Belgium 13. The United Kingdom 14. Conclusions at the international level 15. Conclusions List of abbreviations for political parties References Index
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28 Feb 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present case studies and empirical data of deconversion, which is a phenomenon which increasingly gains popularity in Western societies: deconversion is defined as processes of disengagement from religious orientations, because these have much in common with conversion.
Abstract: This book presents case studies and empirical data of a phenomenon which increasingly gains popularity in Western societies: deconversion. There is, the authors argue, no better word than deconversion to describe processes of disengagement from religious orientations, because these have much in common with conversion; Termination of membership may eventually be the final step of deconversion, but it involves biographical and psychological dynamics which can and need to be reconstructed by qualitative approaches and analyzed by quantitative instruments. In the Bielefeld-based Cross-Cultural Study on Deconversion, disengagement processes from a variety of religious orientations in the U.S.A. and in Germany were examined, ranging from wellestablished religious organizations to new religious and fundamentalist groups. Nearly 1,200 persons participated in the study and were interviewed from 2002 to 2005. In the focus of the study are 100 deconverts from the U.S.A. and from Germany who were examined with narrative interviews, faith development interviews and an extensive questionnaire. For case study elaboration, the study followed a research design with an innovative triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data. Four chapters, corresponding to four types of deconversion, present 21 case studies. The highlights of the research project are new data on spirituality – the deconverts in particular appear to prefer a "more spiritual than religious" selfidentification – and in-depth analyses of a variety of deconversion narratives with special focus on personality factors, motivation, attitudes, religious development, psychological well-being and growth, religious fundamentalism and right-wing authoritarianism. The results of this project which was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft are of special relevance for counselling and pastoral care, for religious education and for people concerned with administration and management of religious groups and churches, but also for a wider audience interested in contemporary changes in the religious fields in the U.S.A. and Germany.
114 citations