Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Education

There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less debate about the fate of religion. Globalization has been viewed as part of the rationalization process, which has already relegated religion to the dustbin of history, just as it threatens the nation, as the world moves toward a cosmopolitan ethics and politics. The chapters in this book, however, make the case for the salience and...

Religion class is the most influential secondary school course a student can take. A good religion course is challenging, reflective, empowering and necessary. It acknowledges that students are people with dignity, appreciates their background and puts them in touch with a world others fear to tread. How can one course do so much? This book opens the door to that conversation. It shares the insight of some masters in the field who have already shown the power of a good religion class. It also draws upon the experience of the authors who have seen its transforming power on students. Written...

Can religions be compared? For decades the discipline of religious studies was based on the assumption that they can. Postmodern and postcolonial reflections, however, raised significant doubts. In social and cultural studies the investigation of the particular often took precedence over a comparative perspective. Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology questions whether religious studies can survive if it ceases to be comparative religion. Can it do justice to a globalized world if it is limited on the specific and turns a blind eye on the general?

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A new era of international migration has been accompanied by increasingly restrictive immigration controls to manage migration to more developed countries. The consequence has been fewer routes to enter and/or stay in countries in a regularised way and as a result, an increase in the numbers of undocumented migrants. In this situation undocumented migrants, especially in relation to immigration controls and internal security have come to occupy an important role on the policy agenda of many nation states. The control and regulation of undocumented migrants has become an increasingly...

Klaus Depta zeigt, wie Pop- und Rockmusik dazu dient, die Kluft zwischen Katholiken unterschiedlicher Lebenswelten und der Katholischen Kirche abzumildern oder gar zu uberbrucken. Insbesondere an den musikalischen Schwerpunkten Gospel, Reggae und Hip Hop macht er deutlich, dass Religion und Musik eine gelungene Symbiose eingehen konnen, die in der heutigen Zeit fur die Verkundigung genutzt werden kann. Basierend auf der Sinus-Milieustudie beschreibt er nicht nur das Verhaltnis der katholischen Kirche zu popularer Musik und die Chancen, die sich aus einer starkeren Offnung der Kirche dazu...

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit vielen Fragen zu den Themen Spiritualitat, Religion und Glaube, Meditation, Achtsamkeit und Gesundheit. Immer mehr Menschen aus allen Teilen der Welt spuren eine tiefe Sehnsucht nach Sinn, Bedeutsamkeit sowie Verbundenheit und begeben sich auf die groe Suche auch auerhalb von Religion. Bahnt sich also eine Art spirituelle Revolution an? Und was bedeuten die Begriffe Spiritualitat, Religion und Esoterik uberhaupt? Sind wir Menschen vielleicht sogar genetisch dazu veranlagt, nach einer tiefen, inneren und authentischen Verbundenheit mit einer hoheren...