Special Issue: Critical Issues and Research in Religious Literacy
Guest Editor: Prof. Adam Dinham, Goldsmiths University, London.
Religious Education in schools evokes mixed memories – and feelings – for most in those countries where it exists. Where it does not, it can be mystifying that schools might have anything to do with religion or belief. Yet migration and globalisation mean daily encounter with increasing diversity, whatever our own religion, belief or none. How we teach, and learn, about religion is a critical part of how we respond religion, often framing our capability to do so.
This special issue focuses upon how we teach and learn about religion and belief across sectors of society – in schools, universities, professional training, workplace learning, and informal, community and citizen settings, as well as a range of international perspectives – through the lens of religious literacy. Papers are particularly invited which engage with any of the following domains and themes:
- school RE
- religion and belief in Higher Education
- engaging with religion and belief identity in the public professions: social work, nursing, counselling, medicine, policing, prison service, armed forces, civil service and others
- citizenship and lifelong learning about religion and belief
- communities of learning about religion and belief
- comparative – especially international – approaches
- methodological issues and historical perspectives in religious literacy
- pedagogies of religious literacy
- definitions and measures of religious literacy
The deadline for papers is 28 February 2019. Publication will be in early 2020. Papers should be submitted according to the journal style guide and will be peer-reviewed according to the journal’s policy. Further instructions for submitting can be found here
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=cjbv20&page=instructions
Please submit via the Editorial Manager online submission system, indicating that you wish your submission to be considered for this special issue.
http://www.edmgr.com/cjbv/default.aspx
very best wishes
Adam
Professor Adam Dinham | Director, Faiths & Civil Society Unit |
Goldsmiths, University of London | New Cross, London, SE14 6NW | UK
www.gold.ac.uk/faithsunit | www.religiousliteracy.org | @RelLitProg