Issues in Religion and Education: Whose Religion?

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Contents

About the Authors

1 Introduction

PART 1: Contexts

2 Public Religion in an Age of Ambivalence: Recovering Religious Literacy after a Century of Secularism

3 Religion and Education in Ontario Public Education: Contested Borders and Uneasy Truces

4 Minority Faiths and Religious Education Policy: The Case of Australian and American Jews, 1945–1980

5 Religion as a Separate Area of Study in India

PART 2: Conceptualising Religion

6 What is Indian ‘Religion’? How Should it Be Taught?

7 What Does Conceptualisation of Religion Have to Do with Religion in Education?

8 Law’s Entanglements: Resolving Questions of Religion and Education

9 From Religion to Spirituality in Education: Towards a Political Regulation of Spirituality?

PART 3: Challenges

10 The Spaces in Between: Religion, Sexual Identity, Media and Education in Ontario

11 Neutrality in Public School Religion Education: Theory and Politics

12 Religion, the Elephant in the Asia-Focused Australian School Room

13 Religion in Schools: A Human Rights Contribution to the Debate

PART 4: Textures

14 Who Speaks for Religion?

15 Lagging Behind Other Nations: The Religions in School Debate in Australia

16 Religion and the Cultures of Higher Education: Student Christianity in the UK

17 Impartiality of Teachers in Quebec’s Non-Denominational Ethics and Religious Culture Program

Index