Religion, Education and Post-Modernity

Andrew Wright

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134426409
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• Chapter 1: The enigma of post-modernity
• Part I: Philosophy
• Part II: Theology
• Part III: Education
• Part IV: Religious education
• Bibliography