Re-imagining Confirmation – Three Hopeful Shifts Webinar by Lisa Kimball, Virginia Seminary, and Terri Elton, Luther Seminary Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 11:00 am EST What is the meaning and purpose of confirmation as church affiliation in North America declines? What does confirmation offer to meet the spiritual hunger of contemporary teenagers? What can be learned […]
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At this year’s AAR Annual Meeting in Atlanta (November 21-24) the official REA session (P21-403) will be moderated by Kathy Winings, our current Chair of the Standing Committee for Religious Education in Faith Communities. Titled “Valuing the Teaching of Religion: Connecting, Disrupting, Transforming Power,” the session will feature Judith Bishop of Mills College (recipient of the AAR’s 2015 Excellence
We don’t usually publicize the numerous advertising offers we receive from publishers — you surely get enough of that in your own email inbox — but Taylor&Francis is the publisher of our journal, and they are currently offering 30 days of free access to all of their education journals, in exchange for a mention of their
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The Association of Practical Theology announces its 33rd Biennial Conference in New York City from April 8-10, 2016. The theme is “Live, Move, and Have Being: Migration and Practical Theology.” Around the world today, across countries and within cities, people experience life-altering dislocation and relocation—migrating within and across the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the
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Graeme Nixon has written a response to an article published in the January-February 2015 issue of Religious Education, written by Yonah H. Matemba, “Mismatches Between Legislative Policy and School Practice in Religious Education: The Scottish Case.” (Vol. 110, No. 1: 70-94. DOI:10.1080/00344087.2015.989097).
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A Carnival of Resistance and Liberation: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Adult Education will held October 23-25, 2015 by Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE). This West Coast Regional Conference is hosted by the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria. The University of Victoria is situated on the lands of the Lekwungen and Coast
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Many of us have been friends and colleagues of Donald Capps. REA offers prayers and condolences to his family, upon his death. May he rest in peace!
In latest book (in Dutch) Bert Roebben considers religious education in European schools as an opportunity and even as a right for every child to ‘learn in encounter’ with the religious other. His approach is narrative, communicative and spiritual. He deals with recent developments in European RE research, such as children and youth theology, sacred scripture
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As memories continue to flood in with the death of John Hull, readers may find Robert Jackson’s obituary of John Hull a powerful catalyst for recollection. It was recently published in The Guardian newspaper.
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The Journal of Childhood and Religion (www.childhoodandreligion.com) is a free online journal launched in 2010. Peer-reviewed, it provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars representing a wide range of research fields, interests, and perspectives that relate to children and religion. JCR is interested in publishing work in such fields as: religious studies, biblical studies, the range of
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