Redefining Religious Education

PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 1. Is Religious Education Possible?; Richard Pring 2. The Idea of Religious Experience; Garrett Thomson 3. Educating Persons: The Role of Religious Education; Marius Felderhof 4. Education, Religion and Spirituality How Do They Fit?; Sharif Horthy 5. Education and Religion: Issues, Visions, and Best Practice; Katherine Marshall PART II: SPIRITUAL EDUCATION IN RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS 6. Religion, Spirituality and Education for Human Flourishing: a Brahma Kumaris perspective; Maureen Goodman 7. Spiritual and Humanistic Education: Perspectives from Seon (Zen) practices; Jinwol Y. H. Lee 8. Religion, Spirituality and Education for Human Flourishing: Perspectives from the Sikh Dharam; Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh 9. The Creative Life: A Buddhist Perspective on Human Flourishing; Jamie Cresswell 10. Collaborative Study for Individual and Social Transformation: a Baha'i perspective; Ming Hwee Chong PART III: PEDAGOGICAL CASE STUDIES Introduction 11. An Exploration of Education About rReligions and Today's Spirituality: Is there a turning point in New Zealand education?; Jocelyn Armstrong 12. Grit in the Shoe or Pearl in the Oyster? A critique of the concept of 'spiritual development' for post-16 learners in English state education; John Breadon 13. Performative Religious Education: Re-vitalizing the forgotten experiential dimension of religion in West-European schools?; Bert Roebben 14. Pathways to the Spirit, the Search for Purpose, and Thriving in Life; David Streight 15. Keeping the Baby in While Throwing the Bathwater Out: the challenges of keeping spirituality in the new Quebec K-12 curriculum on Ethics and Religious Culture while de-confessionalising it; Patrice Brodeur 16. Learning to Live Together; Agneta Ucko Conclusion. Religion, Spirituality and Human Flourishing