Events

Next summer, from July 16 to August 3, the Interfaith Center of New York will hold, in conjunction with Union Theological Seminary, a three-week institute for secondary school teachers entitled, “Religious Worlds of New York: Teaching the Everyday Life of American Religious Diversity.” The institute will have two central goals: It will offer participants an

Religion & Education invites manuscripts addressing the Fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1963 ruling of the companion cases of School Districts of Abington Township v. Schempp and Murray v. Curlett (Abington). Abington, when combined with the Court’s 1962 judgment in Engel v. Vitale, has had significant impact on its First Amendment jurisprudence relating to

Conveners: Zvi Bekerman – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education, The Melton Centre Miriam Ben Peretz – University of Haifa, Department of Education David Zisenwine – Tel Aviv University, The Kelman Center Modern education systems function to build social cohesion through homogenization, whether in decentralized and varied school systems as in the USA or

If you are planning to attend the AAR/SBL meeting in San Francisco, don’t forget to greet our friends at the events hosted by the Wabash Center.  More information here.  The Wabash Center has graciously offered again to fund the breakfast for doctoral students at our own annual meeting.

The North American Professors of Christian Education (NAPCE) is hosting its annual conference October 20-22, 2011 in Seattle, Washington. The 2011 NAPCE conference will explore the role of Scripture in formation and education. We invite research papers and professional workshops that focus on the formative and transformative aspects of Scripture within the context of the

The 11th International Conference on Children’s Spirituality will be held on 1-5 August 2011 at Union Presbyterian Seminary, in Richmond, Virginia. The conference theme is “The Politics of Children’s Spirituality: Identifying & Responding to Social Practices that Put Children at Risk.”