On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education

<p>For a diversity of reasons – the resurgence of religion in global governance globalisation concerns over social and community cohesion the worldwide growth in religiously inspired extremism – religious education has in recent years enjoyed an international renaissance. </p><p>Many theorists and practitioners have added to the debate with a great variety of perspectives. Most have only succeeded in providing a partial view of religion and thus a degraded vision of religion in education. </p><p><em>On Holy Ground</em> offers a new approach to the theory and practice of religious education. It will be the only book of its kind to provide a systematic examination of how contemporary theory and pedagogy of religious education are covertly rooted in a variety of aesthetic philosophical phenomenological psychological scientific theological and related cognate disciplines.</p><p>A major critical review of religious education internationally On Holy Ground provides an original contribution to the theory and practice of religious education and a serious and significant challenge to teachers theorists and researchers in religious education worldwide. </p>