Education

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...

Since its first publication in 1981, AMERICA: RELIGIONS AND RELIGION has become the standard introduction to the study of American religious traditions. Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field of American religions, this textbook has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932236583Author D.G. HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint ISI BooksPublisher Regnery Publishing Inc

In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North...

Theological field education, in which a ministry student steps out of the classroom and begins practicing with the supervision of a mentor, is a critical part of accredited ministry programs. Engage equips both students and their supervisor-mentors to...

This book looks at various educational perspectives throughout history to equip educators today for the task of reclaiming Christian education.About the AuthorTed Newell (EdD, Columbia University; MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary) is associate...

These weekly lessons guide elementary students through the Book of Acts and the New Testament Letters, while also deepening the understanding of parents and teachers. Each lesson provides pithy, content-filled background information for the teacher and a...

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived, and lived within higher education in Britain. It considers the changing nature of university life, and the place of religion within it. Even while many universities maintain ambiguous or...

This book has been written for teachers, teacher trainers and their students, and others working with children and young people. It provides a valuable resource for those engaged in religious studies and South Asian studies, comprising a rich library of...

This book focuses on the question of how different contexts are relevant in the shaping and expression of individual spirituality spanning from early childhood to young adulthood.Past decades have witnessed a strong expansion of research on spirituality...

From the founding of Harvard College in 1636 as a mission for training young clergy to the landmark 1968 Supreme Court decision in Epperson v. Arkansas, which struck down the state's ban on teaching evolution in schools, religion and education in the...

This book reformulates Christian education as an interdisciplinary and interdenominational vocation for professionals and practitioners. It speaks directly to a range of contemporary contexts with the aim of encouraging conceptual, empirical and...

Since Wycliffe College was founded 100 years ago as an Anglican theological college in Toronto, it has had six principals. To celebrate the influence they and the college have had on the religious life of Canada and other countries, six writers have...

Naming God explores the way gender structures our understanding of that reality which transcends our experience. It is intended to promote reflection and to avoid an adversarial "us versus them" approach by presenting a variety of perspectives, looking...

These lesson plans, designed to accompany the weekly lessons laid out in Telling God's Story, Year Three, provide enough additional activities to fill out an entire week of home school or private school study; a core set of activities is also provided...

The seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson (1902-1994) was perhaps the twentieth century's most well-known Jewish religious leader, best identified for spearheading the world-wide reconstruction of post-Holocaust Jewish religious life...

The phrase "free, compulsory, and secular" is central to Australia's understanding of its own education system. Yet the extent to which education in Australia, or anywhere else for that matter, can be described as "secular" is never clear or settled...

Evolution Education and the Rise of the Creationist Movement in Brazil examines how larger societal forces such as religion, media, and politics have shaped Brazil's educational landscape and impacted the teaching and learning of evolution within an...

The education provided by CanadaaEURO (TM)s faith-based schools is a subject of public, political, and scholarly controversy. As the population becomes more religiously diverse, the continued establishment and support of faith-based schools has...

Volume 3 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 chapters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800698669Author John H. TietjenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800696986Author Fernando F. SegoviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

This book has been written for teachers, teacher trainers and their students, and others working with children and young people. It provides a valuable resource for those engaged in religious studies and South Asian studies, comprising a rich library of...

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain. It is a book about the changing nature of university life, and the place of religion within it. Even while many universities maintain ambiguous or...

Few subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of Jews in Western societies. David Goldberg, a progressive Rabbi with many years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes the most difficult issues of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802878823Author Keri DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams) 200g

TEACHING RELIGION is the first book to trace the developments in religious education in England and Wales in the half century to 1994. It starts with the 1944 Butler Act and ends with the DFE Circular of 1994 which was issued to take further the RE...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732891814Author Antonios MakaryusFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Rany MakaryusPublisher Rany MakaryusWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984664399Author Rich AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint 3dm InternationalPublisher 3dm InternationalWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802879066Author Maria Liu WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802879035Author Mark D JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Improve exam skills, check understanding and familiarise students with the types of questions they will face in Edexcel Religious Studies GCSE (9-1) Specification B. This photocopiable pack of exam-style questions, sample answers and mark schemes can be...

The Complete Multifaith Resource for Primary Religious Education Ages 4-7 is a definitive teaching and learning aid for cross-religious exploration in the classroom, offering stimulating and detailed ways in which to apply a concepts-based approach to...

Exploring a neglected facet of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life and legacy, this book examines his work training seminary students for pastoral ministry, arguing for personal, face-to-face education in response to today's rise of online education."This is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999170618Author E M StandingFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Hillside EducationPublisher Hillside EducationWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

No other living tradition has been thinking about thinking longer than the Catholic Church. With carefully selected readings from classical, patristic, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources, Renewing the Mind proposes the Catholic tradition as the...

Among manuals on the life of prayer, the chapters on prayer from Jean-Nicholas Grou's School of Jesus Christ stand out as one of the best short expositions of the essence of prayer that have ever been written. Like such other great writers on prayer as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838094638Author Steve H HakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Mallon de TcPublisher Mallon de TcWeight(grams) 127g

How do ethnic and cultural diversity affect spiritual formation? The authors of A Many Colored Kingdom explore Christian formation and teaching in the church, with a particular focus on intercultural and interethnic relationships. Well-qualified to speak...