Religious Education In A Pluralist Society: The Key Philosophical Issues

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Recent media coverage has included issues directly relevant to Religious Education in a Pluralist Society such as the debate about teaching creationism in schools and implications for religious education, the concern about increasing lawlessness and violence by young people and the possible role of moral and religious education in combating this, plus the growth of religious groups wanting separate schools and the consequent implications for children's and parents' rights and preservation of liberal values. Questions about the nature and role of religious education raise in a very tangible and pointed Way key philosophical issues about the values of a liberal, pluralist, multicultural society. Religious Education in a Pluralist Society provides the philosophical underpinning that the study and teaching of religion in modem societies requires, in a manner that is rigorous while also accessible to readers without philosophical training. Religious Education, philosophy, Critical Realism.

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