Religion Education and Post-Modernity

<p>This book the first to explore religious education and post-modernity in depth sets out to provide a much needed examination of the problems and possibilities post-modernity raises for religious education.<br>At once a general introduction to this topic and a distinctive contribution to the debate in its own right <em>Religion Education and Post-modernity</em> explores and illuminates the problems and possibilities opened up for religious education by postmodern thought and culture. The book describes the emergence of post-modernity considers the impact of post-modernity on religion addresses its impact on the philosophy of religion and considers the nature of religious education in the post-modern world.<br>Andrew Wright argues that although post-modernity has much to offer the religious educator there are also many pitfalls and dangers to be avoided. Steering clear of the extreme of post-modern hyper-realism he constructs a religious pedagogy sensitive to post-modern concerns for alterity difference and the voice of the Other whilst insisting on the importance of reasons in cultivating religious literacy.</p>