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A Religious Education Otherwise? An Examination and Proposed Interruption of Current British Practice.

Strhan, Anna (2010) A Religious Education Otherwise? An Examination and Proposed Interruption of Current British Practice. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 44 (1). pp. 23-44. ISSN 0309-8249. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9752.2010.00742.x) (KAR id:42626)

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Abstract

This paper examines the recent shift towards the dominance of the study of philosophy of religion, ethics and critical thinking within religious education in Britain. It explores the impact of the critical realist model, advocated by Andrew Wright and Philip Barnes, in response to prior models of phenomenological religious education, in order to expose the ways in which both approaches can lead to a distorted understanding of religion. Although the writings of Emmanuel Levinas have been used in support of the critical realist model by Wright, here I consider how his and Slavoj Žižek’s writings on religion might challenge the dominance of the critical realist approach and provide a conceptual framework through which it might be possible to develop an alternative approach to religious education that attends to the complexity, ambiguity and demanding nature of engaging with religious traditions.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2010.00742.x
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
L Education
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Neshen Isaeva
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2014 21:46 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:16 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/42626 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Strhan, Anna.

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