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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This full time position is seeking a person to be a member of a dynamic ministerial team. This person will provide and develop leadership in areas that include: Funerals and Bereavement, Liturgy, Sacramental Preparation, Visitation, and Lifelong Faith Formation and RCIA. Qualifications include being an active Roman Catholic with a willingness to share and pass on one’s
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This position is no longer open. Candler School of Theology invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor in Religious Education beginning Fall 2016. Preference will be given to complete applications submitted by October 1, 2015. The person appointed to this position will be committed to theological education,
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From his wife Marilyn: “John’s funeral will take place on Monday 17th August at 12 noon at our parish church of All Saints, 2 Vicarage Rd, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7RA. Please allow plenty of time for parking, which can be tricky. The church grounds have limited space but please let us know if you require disabled
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We are deeply saddened to learn that Dr. John Hull, a religious education scholar of international esteem, died on July 28, 2015. Joyce Miller, a good friend of John for many years, writes: “Members of ISREV from across the world will be saddened to learn of the death of Professor John Hull in the early
In November of 2013, the Religious Education Association gave the William Rainey Harper award to Robert Jackson. Here is video of him accepting the award, with his speech.
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Yes, that’s a question mark. Education in American society is at a watershed moment evidenced by “flipped classrooms,” synchronous and asynchronous online learning and the exchange of resources and information via social media, Google tools, along with “gamification.” Religious education is no exception and there’s no doubt, as Bud Horell points out in his blog
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Nazareth College, Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue is pleased to accept abstracts for its 3rd international conference on Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Nature and Environment in the Sacred Texts of World Religions at Nazareth College, Rochester, New York in collaboration with Department of Religious Studies at Hobart William-Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY. to be
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Our mission statement begins with: “The mission of the Religious Education Association is to create opportunities for exploring and advancing the interconnected practices of scholarship, research, teaching, and leadership…” At the 2015 Annual Conference we will begin with a focus on the practice of teaching. A concern for teaching is one of the most distinctive
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John Roberto begins his new book by stating: “What does it mean to reimagine? Dictionaries define it to ‘reinterpret imaginatively,’ ‘rethink,’ ‘imagine again or anew,’ ‘form a new conception of,’ or ‘recreate.’ Reimagining Faith Formation or the 21st Century is true to these definitions. I this book I rethink and recreate a faith formation for
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