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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: The authors argued that worldview is a useful concept in religious education because of its encompassing character and argued that existential questions are a necessary part of "worldview" and that the distinction between organized and personal worldviews should be made.
Abstract: This article aims to argue that worldview is a useful concept in religious education because of its encompassing character. In the first part of the article three essential characteristics of “worldview” are distinguished: “worldview” includes religious and secular views; a distinction between organized and personal worldviews should be made; and existential questions are a necessary part of “worldview.” The second part of the article demonstrates how two articles about Grimmitt's distinction between learning about and from religion benefit from using “worldview” and how the authors can address their points more clearly by using the concept and its three essential characteristics.
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TL;DR: In this article, Amadu Bamba's views on educational theory and practices and how his Sufi orientation shaped Murid pedagogy are described and analyzed, revealing the centrality of the theme of education in his writings, sermons and correspondence and documents the continuing influence of this education on the Murid ethos.
Abstract: The scholarship on the Muridiyya focuses mainly on the examination of the political and economic aspects of the brotherhood. Dominant scholarly interpretations see the organisation as an effective instrument of adaptation to a turbulent period in history. Disgruntled Wolof farmers joined the Muridiyya as a way of adjusting to the new order brought about by the demise of the pre-colonial kingdoms and the establishment of French domination in Senegal, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Since the role of religious innovations and beliefs was considered peripheral in this process of adjustment, not much attention has been devoted to doctrinal and spiritual issues within the brotherhood. Emphasis had been put on the analysis of the socio-political context of the founding of the Murid brotherhood, and the economic and psychological incentives that might have motivated people to join the organisation. In contrast to this interpretation, I conceive of the Muridiyya as the result of a conscious decision by a Sufi shaikh who saw it primarily as a vehicle for religious change, but also for social and political transformation. Education was the principal tool for the realisation of this social change. This article describes and analyses Amadu Bamba's views on educational theory and practices and explores how his Sufi orientation shaped Murid pedagogy. It reveals the centrality of the theme of education in his writings, sermons and correspondence and documents the continuing influence of this education on the Murid ethos.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of justice, PEACE, and the integrity of creation in the context of religious education, and propose a curriculum for religious education.
Abstract: (1990). JUSTICE, PEACE, AND THE INTEGRITY OF CREATION. Religious Education: Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 5-14.
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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, a Utilitarian science of society: science and religion ethics and the science of legislation is discussed, and a natural and revealed religion: natural religion revealed religion christian asceticism and sexual nonconformity.
Abstract: Part 1 A Utilitarian science of society: science and religion ethics and the science of legislation. Part 2 Church of Englandism: religious liberty the subscription controversy oaths, Irish Catholics, and blasphemy the alliance of church and state the Lancasterian controversy and religious education anticlericalism and disestablishment. Part 3 Natural and revealed religion: natural religion revealed religion christian asceticism and sexual nonconformity.
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TL;DR: The Re-searchers project as discussed by the authors ) is a critical dialogic approach to religious education in primary schools, which was supported by the Culham St. Gabriel's Trust and Hockerill Education Foundation.
Abstract: The ‘Identifying Principles and Big Ideas for Religious Education’ project was supported by the St Luke’s College Foundation (016J-086). The ‘RE-searchers: A critical dialogic approach to Religious Education in primary schools’ project was supported by the Culham St. Gabriel’s Trust and Hockerill Education Foundation.
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