Religious Education and Social and Community Cohesion: An Exploration of Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract: Religious education and social and community cohesion is an interesting project which has resulted in a timely and thought-provoking text. In recent times there has been a good deal of interest in the place of religion and faith in public life, policy and education and, in particular, in the affect (positive or otherwise) which religion and faith have on social and community cohesion. This excellent book significantly adds to this debate. Wide-ranging in its scope, and what the editor declares will be his last book in a long career in religious education, Michael Grimmett has successfully brought together a cohesive and significant text which should be of interest to a wide audience. In his introduction Grimmett makes clear his thinking behind the project: ‘a seismic shift in the social, political, religious, moral and ethnic landscape of the UK in the last decade has presented RE with a new and still to be addressed challenge and has shown... that current theories and practice .... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/610

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Religious Education and Social and Community Cohesion: An Exploration of Challenges and Opportunities ; volume:11 ; number:3 ; day:25 ; month:06 ; year:2012 ; Journal of social science education ; 11, Heft 3 (25.06.2012)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Peterson, Andrew

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.4119/jsse-610
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011816090207167547
• Rechteinformation: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:49 MESZ