Religion, Education and Post-Modernity

By Andrew Wright

Book Overview

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.
At once a general introduction to this topic and a distinctive contribution to the debate in its own right, Religion, Education and Post-modernity 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.
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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138881074
• ISBN13: 9781138881075
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"