ABSTRACT

Education, Religion and Society celebrates the career of Professor John Hull, a leading figure in the transformation of religious education in English and Welsh schools, and co-founder of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values. He has also made major contributions to the theology of disability and the theological critique of the 'money culture'.

Leading international scholars join together to offer a critical appreciation of his contribution to religious education and practical theology, and explore the continuing debate about the role of religious education in promoting international understanding, intercultural education and human rights. The contributors also deal with indoctrination, racism and relationship in Christian religious issues, and examine aspects of the theology of social exclusion and disability.

This unique book includes a complete list of John Hull's writings up to the beginning of 2005 providing both an excellent introduction to contemporary issues of religious education in the West, and the most complete critical account yet of his work.

chapter |27 pages

John Hull

A critical appreciation

part 1|64 pages

Religious education, pluralism and global community

part 2|76 pages

Current issues in Christian education and practical theology

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 7|13 pages

Telling a new story

Reconfiguring Christian education for the challenges of the twenty-first century

chapter 11|11 pages

Does the Church need the Bible?

Reflections on the experiences of disabled people

part 3|80 pages

Religious education

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 12|12 pages

Children as theologians

God-talk with children, developmental psychology, and inter-religious education

chapter 13|14 pages

Strangeness in inter-religious classroom communication

Research on the Gift-to-the-Child material

chapter 14|10 pages

Playful orthodoxy

Religious education's solution to pluralism

chapter 15|13 pages

The roles of dialogue in religious education

A Russian perspective

chapter 17|12 pages

Religious education and the life-world of young people

Psychological perspectives