Impressive Facts in Religious Education∗

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...

The Future of Religious Education: Three Pathways to Explore Dr. Maurice Ryan Senior Lecturer in Religious Education

The Secular Benefits of Comparative Religious Education

Shaken baby syndrome: facts, education, and advocacy.

The exact prevalence of SBS in the United States is unknown, because many states and the national reporting statistics do not categorize SBS events or fatalities. In some states, child fatality review teams may categorize SBS but are restricted by state statute from making public reports of the number of child maltreatment fatalities, much Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is likely the greatest cause...

Medical Sciences Education based on Religious Spiritualism

the term “spirituality” has been proposed to denote the notion of intellectuality. Actually, the former has been derived from the Latin words “spiritus” (means breath) and “spirare” (means inhaling or breathing). Given the Latin translations of the New Testament, the term “spiritualis” or spiritual person is an individual whose life is dominated or influenced by the Holy Spirit or God (1).