James Arthur, Liam Gearon, Alan Sears

Education, Politics and Religion

Reconciling the Civil and the Sacred in Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years a number of popular books have savaged religion arguing it is a dangerous delusion that poisons human societies and relationships. This is but the most recent manifestation of a secularising agenda that has been sweeping contemporary democratic societies since the Enlightenment. This book pushes back against that agenda, examining its key assumptions and arguing that the exclusion of religious people and ideas from education and the public square is both undemocratic and unwise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415565493
• ISBN-10: 0415565499
• Artikelnr.: 29298429

Autorenporträt

James Arthur is Professor of Education and Civic Engagement at the University of Birmingham, UK. Liam Gearon is a Professor of Education at the University of Plymouth, UK. Alan Sears is Professor of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction An Argument for Enchantment Section I: Educational, Political
and Theological Theory 1. Christianity, Citizenship and Identity 2.
Republican Theory, Citizenship and Religion Section II: Challenges of
Historical and Philosophical Interpretation 3. Christianity, Citizenship
and Education: From Antiquity to Enlightenment and its Aftermath 4.
Religion, Education and Extremism: From Totalitarian Democracy to Liberal
Autocracy Section III: Pragmatic and Pedagogical Approaches 5. Religious
Faith, Citizenship Education and the Public Square 6. Citizenship Education
as Transformation: The Possibilities of
Religious Approaches to Education Biblography