Religious instruction Books

Book SynopsisWho am I? What's my purpose in life? How should I live? This book invites you to explore your identity through your callings, to imagine living virtuously for others, and to discover deep meaning and satisfaction in life. You'll look at many vocations that young people have or will have later in life. Callings covered include being a student, citizen, neighbor, worker, care-taker of nature, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, parent, child, sibling, saint and priest, and friend. Chapters on these callings examine the nature and responsibilities of these roles in light of human and divine wisdom found in the liberal arts tradition and the Bible. You'll also entertain the role that avocations play in life and how such enthusiastic pursuits can renew and equip you. Each chapter contains exercises for reflection and discussion that can be done privately, with a partner, or in a group.

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Book SynopsisReligions and Education in Antiquity gathers ten essays on teaching and learning in the contexts of ancient Western religions, including Judaism, early Christianity and Gnostic Christian traditions. Beginning with an overview of religious education in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds, editor Alex Damm and the contributors together demonstrate the mutual influence of religion and education on each other; the relevance of educational traditions in addressing (for instance) historical or exegetical issues; and the thoroughgoing importance of education to religious life across time and space in antiquity. Highly useful to scholars of religion, theology, classics and education, this volume affords a state of the art study on pedagogy and learning in ancient religious contexts.Trade Review"Scholars of ancient and late antique adult instruction find interesting conversation partners in this stimulating volume." - Monika Amsler, University of Maryland/University of Zürich, Zeitschrift für Religions-Wissenschaft 27.2, 2019. "The present collection of essays is a worthwhile contribution toward the future realization of such a comprehensive overview. Further, in accordance with the twofold expertise of its dedicatee Michel Desjardins, the Festschrift not only offers theoretical insights into the history of ancient religious education but also contains practical didactical ideas that can be helpful to teachers as they prepare their classes, lectures, or seminars." - Boris Paschke, Royal Athenaeum Emanuel Hiel, Belgium.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Religions and Education in Antiquity: An Introduction  Alex Damm 1 Wisdom from the Wise: Pedagogical Principles from Proverbs  John L. McLaughlin 2 Education in the Sacrospace of Qumran Judaism  Wayne O. McCready 3 Late Second Temple Judaism: A Reconstruction and Re-description as a Religio-Cultural System  Jack N. Lightstone 4 Techne in Plato and the New Testament  Joseph A. Novak 5 Why Not to Pity Rome: Revelation 18:22-23a in its Ancient Educational Context  Alex Damm 6 Those Who Hear: The Power of Learners in 1 Timothy  Mona Tokarek LaFosse 7 Translation Matters: The Coptic Translation of Thomas  John Horman 8 Pedagogy, Text and the Solitary Self in the Gospel of Thomas  William Arnal 9 Praises and Rebukes in the Gnostic Revelation Dialogues  Michael Kaler Index

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Book SynopsisIn this monograph Leslie J. Francis reviews and assesses the contributions made by the individual differences tradition of psychology over the past 50 years to research in religious education. In this context religious education is conceived broadly to embrace what takes place in schools, within religious communities, and within households across the age span. Topics include: • the centrality of the attitudinal dimension of religion; • the place of personality in the individual differences tradition; • sex as a core individual difference in religion; • the consequences of individual differences in religious affect; • the role of church schools and the role of the family in religious nurture; • the factors that account for individual differences in attitude toward religious diversity; • the relevance of the individual differences tradition for adult religious education; • the implications of the individual differences tradition for biblical hermeneutics and discipleship learning.

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Book SynopsisAt Christmas 1936, Presbyterian children in New Zealand raised over £400 for an x-ray machine in a south Chinese missionary hospital. From the early 1800s, thousands of children in the British world had engaged in similar activities, raising significant amounts of money to support missionary projects world-wide. But was money the most important thing? Hugh Morrison argues that children’s education was a more important motive and outcome. This is the first book-length attempt to bring together evidence from across a range of British contexts. In particular it focuses on children’s literature, the impact of imperialism and nationalism, and the role of emotions.Table of ContentsProtestant Children, Missions and Education in the British World   Hugh Morrison  Abstract  Keywords  Part 1. Introduction  Part 2. Children’s Missionary Support – The Educational Imperative  Part 3. Children’s Missionary Periodicals and Pedagogy  Part 4. Children, Missions and Citizenship  Part 5. Children, Missions and the ‘Emotional Turn’  Part 6. Conclusion  Acknowledgements  Bibliography

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