The fourth plenary at our recent annual meeting was focussed on the questions of religious education in public life, and specifically on caring for creation. Jennifer Ayres, Kyle Kramer and Timothy Van Meter all addressed these issues, and there was robust discussion following their presentations.
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We have now placed video recordings of all of the plenary speakers from last November’s meeting online. We will highlight each speaker in a news post here, and we encourage you to share the videos and use them in teaching. In the opening plenary of the 2015 meeting Emilie Townes focused on the challenges of imagination
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Bert Roebben, our incoming annual meeting program chair, has posted a paper which further lays out some of his ideas for the upcoming meeting. Here’s the abstract: This contribution is situated in the European discourse on the role of the teacher of religious/worldview education in schools. Based on the assumption that every child and youngster
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The REA Annual Meeting 2015 Proceedings are now available on our website. Our proceedings include the papers presented at Research Interest Group sessions at the annual meeting.
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Nostra Aetate is a document from the Roman Catholic church that was promulgated as part of Vatican II. This year it is 50 years old, and there have been some wonderful conferences and other events marking that anniversary. Why? Because the document was a key turning point in not only the Catholic church’s but other Christian
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The Youth Ministry Initiative at Yale will be featuring our member and past president, Dr. Anne Wimberly, in a presentation on May 6th at 12:30 pm eastern time. It will be live-streamed, so even if you aren’t in New Haven, you will be able to hear her lecture. The session will include an overview of meanings
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Organizers seek help in shaping a new teaching tool A team of scholars, writers, graphic artists, and media producers have begun work on a project that introduces young people to the Bible and to its historical contexts in visually and narratively compelling new ways. A set of graphic novels, already in production, seeks to embed
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The Institute for Religious Studies and Religious Education at the University of Bremen is hosting a new journal, gamevironments, considering the interactions of games, religion and culture. The journal welcomes contributions applying all approaches and highlighting all fields of investigation related to video games/gaming and religion, culture, and society. The journal also explicitly seeks to acknowledge the
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Many of our webpages and papers refer to specific associations or organizations by acronyms or letters alone. That can be very confusing! We have begun a webpage on this site that is a glossary of associations we either have some involvement with, our members are also active in, or we have referred to in various papers
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The REA Horizons in Religious Education series announces the acceptance of the 2nd book in the series. Open Minds, Devoted Hearts: Portraits of Adult Religious Educators written by Dr. Sarah Tauber will be published in 2015. Dr. Tauber is Assistant Professor of Jewish Education at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. She has published essays
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