The mission of the Religious Education Association is to create opportunities for exploring and advancing the interconnected practices of scholarship, research, teaching, and leadership in faith communities, academic institutions, and the wider world community. The Association accomplishes its mission in four ways:
- Through sharing, critiquing and encouraging publication of substantive research, probing scholarship and practical approaches to religious education (particularly through its journal Religious Education);
- Through ecumenical, inter-religious, and cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and inter-professional dialogue that stimulates members to recall and examine historic traditions and explore fresh visions of religious education for the diverse and ever-changing human family in our complex world community;
- Through creation of international networks of communication, cooperation and support in order to strengthen leaders in religious education, and religious education as a distinctive and vital field; and
- Through interpreting the nature, purposes, and value of the field of religious education to the wider society and those preparing to become professors, researchers, or other leaders in religious education.
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The Religious Education Association is proud to be a Related Scholarly Organization to the American Academy of Religion.
Non-Discrimination Policy
The Religious Education Association shall not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status, in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, staff hiring and staff practices; selection and management of volunteers, vendors and contractors; membership recruitment; provision of services; and dealings with the general public.
This policy was endorsed and approved by the Religious Education Association Board of Directors, November 8, 2013.