Does Religious Education Matter?

Introduction

Mary Shanahan

Part 1: The Distinctness of Religious Education

1 A Space like no Other

John Sullivan

2 What sort of Religious Education is needed? And why is it so Important Today?

Graham Rossiter

3 Interpreting ‘between privacies’: Religious Education as a Conversational Activity

Sandra Cullen

Part 2: Religious Education in the School Context

4 Does Religious Education Matter? What do Teachers Say?

Ros Stuart-Buttle

5 Living the Questions: The Spirituality of the RE Teacher According to Henri J.M. Nouwen

David Torevell

6 Going below the Surface of Grow in Love: Some of the Theological Presuppositions in the New Catholic Religious Education Primary Programme for Ireland

Daniel O’Connell

7 Eclipses and Reclamations: The Question of Religion in Educational Experience

Pádraig Hogan

8 Does Religious Education Matter to Teachers in Catholic Primary Schools? Concerns and Challenges

Fiona Dineen and David Lundie

9 Religious Education in Catholic Second-level Schools in Ireland Today: An Invitation to Love, Understanding, Commitment, Hospitality, and Dialogue

Gareth Byrne

10 The Role of Religious Education Teachers: Perspectives from the Field

Hafiz Printer and Arzina Zaver

11 Reclaiming our ‘Own Selves’: Fragmentation, Christian Religious Education and the New Junior Cycle

Amalee Meehan

12 Does Religious Education Matter in Non-Denominational Schools in Scotland?

Stephen J. McKinney and Raymond McCluskey

Part 3: Exploring the Potential of Religious Education

13 Democracy, Political Salvation, and the Future of Religious Education

L. Philip Barnes

14 Sartre’s Kierkegaard: Existential Philosophy and the Irish Primary School

Jones Irwin

15 Religious Education and Emerging Technologies: A Post-Worldview Flâneur

James E. Willis and Viktoria A. Strunk

16 Religious Education through an Experiential Lens: Inclusivity and Subjectivity in the Writing and Literature Classroom

Gavin F. Hurley

17 Educational Exclusion: A Fundamental Layer of Social Exclusion

Ali Selim

18 Religious Education in Ecclesiological Perspective

Anne Codd

19 Religion in the Latina/o Community: History, Identity, and Conscientization through Religious Education

João Chaves

20 Lessons for Religious Educators from the ‘Good Teacher’ (Luke 18:18) of the Synoptic Gospels

Diane Corkery