Editorial: Imagination and Religious Education

Imagination and medical education.

Rival and apparently exclusive views have been canvassed about the instrumental use of the humanities in medical education. The novel is seen as offering exemplifications of moral principles on the one hand, whilst on the other such an approach is said to miss the essence of reading a novel by misrepresenting the engagment of the reader. The use of the humanities in medicine as a stimulus to re...

Editorial Preface Cyberworlds and Education

This special issue “Cyberworlds and Education” is based on papers presented at the 2003 International Conference on Cyberworlds (held in Singapore, December 3-5, 2004). This conference was organized by the School of Computer Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University. Cyberworlds are information worlds formed on the web either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without visual desi...

Fundamentalism as a Challenge for Religious Education

Empirical research on fundamentalist biographies—presented are three case studies and a summary of research results—demonstrate the complex biographical-motivational factors for fundamentalist turns, but also a transformational potential. Explaining fundamentalist conversion and deconversion within a theoretical framework of fundamentalism as “modern anti-modernism” and as “dislocation of relig...

Religious Literacy through Religious Education: The Future of Teaching and Learning about Religion and Belief

This article reports on research undertaken between July 2014 and November 2015 in secondary schools (for young people aged 11–16) across England to ask what young people need to know about religion and belief in schools in order to increase ‘religious literacy’ when they go in to the workplace and wider society. The research arises in the context of an urgent debate which has been underway in ...

The Secular Benefits of Comparative Religious Education