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Religious Education for Everyone A Proposal
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Religious Education for Everyone
A Proposal
Patricia Hannam | Gert Biesta
Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Religious Education for Everyone argues for a public-democratic approach to religious education that gives access to what a religious way of life has to offer to all. Hannam and Biesta propose a new approach to religious education centred on a responsibility to introduce children and young people to what a religious way of being 'in' and 'with' the world may have to offer for them, individually and collectively. Their approach is an existential approach to religious education, one focussed on ways of leading one's life, as opposed to more common confessional, anthropological, knowledge-focused or literacy approaches. They argue that since the religious way of life is an option open to everyone, education has the task to provide the new generation with opportunities to explore this option as an 'existential possibility' and an opportunity to discern its value in their life and for the world. The book opens a new dialogue on religious education in schools and on a societal level as something that can enable children and young people to share and develop their own thinking around issues including war, inequality and the climate crisis, as well as deepened understandings of the beauty of human life.
Patricia Hannam is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. She is executive chair of the Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education (AULRE) and was previously County Inspector/Advisor for RE, History and Philosophy in Hampshire, UK.
Gert Biesta is Professorial Chair in the Faculty of Education of the University of Melbourne, Australia, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pedagogy, Religion and Social Studies, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Emeritus Professor of Public Education at Maynooth University, Ireland.
| Publication Date: | 04 February 2027 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| ISBN-13: | 9781350538696 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Page Count: | 162 |
| Weight (oz): | 16.0 |