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Holistic Religious Education - is it possible? - The complex web of religion, spirituality and morality
von: Sturla Sagberg
Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2015
ISBN: 9783830983187 , 172 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
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Holistic Religious Education - is it possible? - The complex web of religion, spirituality and morality
Book Cover
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
9
Introduction
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Holistic religious education or bits and pieces
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The meaning of holism
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The main question and the main problem
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The child and the process of making meaning
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The art of holistic religious education
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Holistic education and the complex web of religion, spirituality and morality
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I The child and the process of making meaning
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1 Where it all starts: Children as spiritual subjects, and the meaning of time and space
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Theoretical backdrop
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‘Time and space for wonder’
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A narrative approach to meaning
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Kindergarten A: Ordinary time, infinite space and heaven
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Kindergarten B: Empathy and rules of conduct
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Kindergarten C: Time and space for wonder
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Children’s meaning-making, spirituality and different educational environments: summary and outlook
37
2 The concept of ‘child’ and the question of identity formation
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A new concept of the child?
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The paradox of the new child paradigm
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The new child paradigm and religious education
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The power of a traditional Christian view of the child
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The child concept has changed in times of crisis
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The ‘identity’ concept
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Identity and personal memory
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The child, the church and the family: some trends and issues in a Nordic perspective
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Summary and outlook
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3 The child in theology – and as theologian?
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A family of related concepts
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The Child Theology Movement
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The Kindertheologie network
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Child theology in Norway
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Child theology and a ‘broad and complex view of children’
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Summary and discussion
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4 Children’s faith – a matter of morality?
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Conceptual and methodological challenges concerning children’s faith
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Faith and ‘childhood learning’
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Children’s faith is existential trust
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Faith and morality interrelated or mixed
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5 Children’s meaning-making as spirituality
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A rumour of angels
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The paradoxical interest in the spiritual in late modern society
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Two roots in research on spirituality
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Religious and/or spiritual development?
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The point mode and the line mode
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Spirituality is not a matter of either religious or secular worldviews, but of being connected or alienated
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Which spirituality are we looking for?
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Recent research and new trajectories
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Hermeneutics of spiritual education for young children – an attempt
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Back to the angels – and down to earth
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II The art of holistic religious education
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6 Education as a spiritual process, and the meaning of religious nurture
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The dynamics of spirituality in education
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How can religion and religious education relate to education in general?
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The meaning of education
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Religion in spiritual education
108
A Norwegian example
109
Religion in spiritual education and political ethics
113
Conclusion and outlook
115
7 Religious education and the pedagogy of wonder
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Three kinds of wonder
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The beginning of knowledge of all kinds
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Wonder increased or replaced by knowledge: Two strands of understanding
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Wonder in the New Testament
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Platonic and Aristotelian influences on Christian theology
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From religious wonder to aesthetic wonder
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Wonder in religious education – philosophical, religious or both?
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What is the significance of wonder in religious education?
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The object of wonder is particular events, not only universal issues
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The subjective aspect of wonder involves open-ended philosophy
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A language of wonder has ethical aspects
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Wonder and the question of truth in religious plurality
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Summary
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8 Religious education and religion as culture
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A functional or substantial approach to religion and culture
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Religion understood in terms of cultural relativism or constructivism
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Religious culture and the issue of cultural or religious identity
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The power of religious culture and possible consequences for religious education
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Summary and outlook
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9 A holistic approach to the art of religious education
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Eight principles of holistic education
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Religious education in the town square, in the narthex or on a pilgrimage?
151
Making meaning of the complexity of religion, spirituality and morality
154
References
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Index
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