Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999170625Author E M StandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Hillside EducationPublisher Hillside EducationWeight(grams) 354g

Examines the main ideas that characterize all religious thought and practice. The Sacred Quest takes a thematic and comparative approach to the study of religion. It gives equal weight to theoretical issues and practices reflected in the major world...

Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984664382Author Mike BreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint 3dm InternationalPublisher 3dm InternationalWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984664313Author Mike BreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint 3dm InternationalPublisher 3dm InternationalWeight(grams) 225g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800625351Author Walter H. CappsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg FortressWeight(grams) 650g

The most frequently asked question on homeschool forums is, "How do I do this?" and the number one complaint is, "David won't do (fill in the blank). How can I get him to do it?" God Schooling answers these questions and more. Parents gain the insight...

The third in a series designed to take young students from elementary through high school, Telling God's Story, Year 3 provides scripted weekly lessons for third graders and the adults who teach them. Each weekly lesson provides content-filled background...

The study of religion, traditionally sponsored by sectarian institutions, has within recent decades come to claim an increasingly larger share of attention in colleges and universities generally, and in the process the constituent intellectual...

In this work, W. Clark Gilpin proposes that American theological scholarship has become responsible to a threefold public: the churches, the academic community, and civil society. The author approaches this goal indirectly, by investigating the historic...

In this work, W. Clark Gilpin proposes that American theological scholarship has become responsible to a threefold public: the churches, the academic community, and civil society. The author approaches this goal indirectly, by investigating the historic...

First published in 1997, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship is a landmark work that offered a bold call to re-establish Christian perspectives in academia. While other defining elements of a scholar's identity, such as race or gender, are...

Volume III of the "Spirituality and Ethics in Education" series bring together textual, empirical and pedagogical approaches to enriching spiritual education as a significant multi-disciplinary and cross-curricular influence in the modern world. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949564914Author Stephanie PavlantosFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Mt. Zion Ridge PressPublisher Mt. Zion Ridge PressWeight(grams)...

A collection of essays written specifically to help graduate students of Religious Studies and Theology in their quest to become professional scholars and professors: this candid and yet practical guide is indispensable reading for graduate students of...

This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond...

This book presents a range of perspectives on the current state of Catholic education in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. All of the chapters have their origin in an International Conference on Catholic Education, held at Heythrop College...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566994071Author Matthew FlodingFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Alban Institute, IncPublisher Alban Institute, IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Wood, Waterfalls and Stars is a collection of essays which takes as its central focus, the challenge of Catholic education in the new millennium. The essays are rooted in the Catholic tradition and in the lived experience of Catholic students and...

Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers of religious young people from all faith backgrounds who are committed to interfaith understanding and...

Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports. What we hear less about are the growing numbers of religious young people from all faith backgrounds who are committed to interfaith understanding and...

This book highlights the work of faculty in many disciplines who have connected service-learning with their teaching and scholarship. The challenge of Christian scholarship in service-learning is to use the scholarly tool of our disciplines, with...

Comprised of fifteen essays, Religion, Culture, Curriculum, and Diversity in 21st Century America, provides a cutting-edge examination of diversity issues against the backdrop of curriculum development and outcomes in Christian higher education. The...

Christian Liberal Arts articulates the practical, pedagogical, and theological reasons why Christian liberal arts colleges are distinctive in the world of American higher education. Mannoia enumerates the intrinsic and instrumental values of Christian...

The second in a twelve-year series designed to take young students from elementary through high school, Telling God's Story, Year Two provides scripted weekly lessons for second graders and the adults who teach them. Each weekly lesson provides pithy,...

When the Sisters Said Farewell tells an important story of the contributions of Catholic elementary schools to the United States by chronicling the experiences and insights of religious women (nuns) who were the last members of their communities to serve...

Lutheran colleges and universities occupy a distinctive space in American higher education. In an age where the dividing line between sacred and secular has become blurred, Brian Beckstrom argues that their "rooted and open" approach, combined with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647284909Author Mandy ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Teaching with the Wind tackles the question, "Can education for a Canadian civic spirituality bridge the sometimes incommensurable worldviews of faith-based schools and secular public schools?" An affirmative answer is offered based on two foundations...

"This provocative and timely book challenges Americans to rethink what it means to take democracy and religious freedom seriously in public education. Emile Lester takes the reader beyond culture war conflicts rooted in religious divisions and offers...

The essays in this volume give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the twentieth century - by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, followed by social and academic upheavals in the 1960s),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996183932Author Robin GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Beky BooksPublisher Beky BooksWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

When the Secular Becomes Sacred: Religious Secular Humanism and its Effects Upon America's Public Learning Institutions is an analysis of American K-16 public learning institutions from a unique perspective. Secular teachings, such as social-emotional...

Decolonizing Interreligious Educationexplores multiple injustices, focusing on the lived experience, unaddressed grief, and acts of resistance and resilience of populations most impacted by coloniality and white supremacy. It lifts up the voices of those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055274Author Linda K. WertheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

"This provocative and timely book challenges Americans to rethink what it means to take democracy and religious freedom seriously in public education. Emile Lester takes the reader beyond culture war conflicts rooted in religious divisions and offers...

For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been perhaps the most important voice of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. His essays are cited constantly, his books used in undergraduate and graduate classes. Smith has also...

The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education, in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole. They pose a challenging and crucial question:...

For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith was among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. Smith had also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of...

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion-historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of...