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Islam on campus: contested identities and the cultures of higher education in Britain Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Jeremiah O. Adebolajo
(2021). Islam on campus: contested identities and the cultures of higher education in Britain. Journal of Beliefs & Values. Ahead of Print.
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Secularisation in 1960s Britain: triumph of rationalism or self-fulfilling prophecy? Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Ian Jones
(2021). Secularisation in 1960s Britain: triumph of rationalism or self-fulfilling prophecy?. Journal of Beliefs & Values. Ahead of Print.
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Is worldview education achieved in schools? A study of Finnish teachers’ perceptions of worldview education as a component of basic education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Jenni Lemettinen, Elina Hirvonen, Martin Ubani
ABSTRACT In recent years, the concept of ‘worldview’ has resurfaced into the forefront of the international debate among scholars of religious education. With this study, we aim to contribute to the discussion with empirical material having a focus on worldview education in whole school education. The study deals with the Finnish teachers’ perceptions of worldview education in basic education. Teachers
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Discernment as predictor for transformational leadership: a study of school leaders in Catholic schools in India Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 C. A. M. Hermans
ABSTRACT Transformational leaders are leaders who ‘transform and inspire followers to perform beyond expectations while transcending self-interest for the good of the organisation’. ‘Discernment’ is defined as the individual and communal practice of decision-making that is oriented on the future (educational aims), conditioned by the personal qualities of leaders (purity of heart), and which emphasises
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Gratitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of spirituality among Filipinos Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Jeannie A. Perez, Consuelo O. Peralta, Federico B. Besa
ABSTRACT This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the relationships between gratitude and life satisfaction; gratitude and spirituality; spirituality and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of spirituality between gratitude and life satisfaction. We utilised the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), and Daily Spiritual Experience Scale as measures. The study
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Jesus Christ, learning teacher: where theology and pedagogy meet Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-02-07 Mark R. Dorsett
(2021). Jesus Christ, learning teacher: where theology and pedagogy meet. Journal of Beliefs & Values. Ahead of Print.
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Values in the geometry and measurement unit of the Palestinian Grade six mathematics book Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Wajeeh Daher
ABSTRACT School textbooks affect the different aspects of students’ learning. One way that textbooks can affect students’ learning is through the values embedded in the texts. In the present research, we intend to study values in elementary school mathematics textbook. Specifically, we study values in the Geometry and Measurement unit of the Palestinian Grade six mathematics book. This unit is comprised
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The rise and fall of America’s conscience: the disappearance of the conscience from collegiate moral education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Perry L. Glanzer
ABSTRACT Scholarship about the concept of the conscience has languished in the past half century, although some recent works have sought to revive it. One recent attempt proposes that the key to reviving the concept is its secularisation, since this secularisation would make it less dogmatic and more useful to a wider audience. In this paper, I argue that this process already occurred in American collegiate
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Towards religious literacy in South African schools: is the Life Orientation curriculum potent enough? Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Maitumeleng Albertina Nthontho, Richardson Addai-Mununkum
ABSTRACT Owing to the mixed-bag effects of religion on society, and particularly South Africa’s history with religion as embedded in the oppression of and liberation from apartheid, a recent curricular review has seen the introduction of teaching about religion in the Life Orientation (LO) curriculum. From our standpoint as academics in Religion Education, we question whether the current curricular
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An elephant in the room: university chaplains cultivating healthy religious diversity through respectful dialogue Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Darren Cronshaw, Newton Daddow
ABSTRACT Finding Common Ground (FCG) is an inter-belief dialogue program hosted in the Multi Faith Facility of Swinburne University of Technology. FCG is a voluntary program that offers Swinburne students a safe space to discuss their religious faith, or alternative value base, and to learn from those of others. Two iterations of this program were evaluated in 2018. We argue that nurturing healthy
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Prosociality, religiosity and values in adolescence: comparing the impact of religious and general schooling in Turkey Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-12-19 Gökhan Arslantürk, Dinçkan Harput
ABSTRACT So far, there is no consensus in psychology research with regard to the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behaviour. However, this relationship is quite important for understanding the dynamics underlying prosociality in adolescence. In the present study, 1,170 Turkish adolescents (aged 12–17) from both religious and general schools were compared in terms of their prosociality
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Leading school with diverse worldviews: Finnish principals’ perceptions Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Tuuli Lipiäinen, Anita Jantunen, Arto Kallioniemi
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out what kind of worldviews Finnish principals identify in their schools and the kind of lived realities of worldviews that are affecting schools from the perspective of school leadership. The issues were considered using a wide worldview framework, which includes religious and non-religious worldviews and focused on the lived realities of worldviews.
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Migration, religion and early childhood education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Anna Strhan
(2020). Migration, religion and early childhood education. Journal of Beliefs & Values. Ahead of Print.
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The role of spiritual intelligence and dispositional forgiveness in predicting episodic forgiveness Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Justyna Mróz, Kinga Kaleta, Katarzyna Skrzypińska
ABSTRACT Relationships between spirituality and forgiveness have been of considerable interest to researchers. However, results of their studies remain ambiguous. In the present study, we explored associations between spiritual intelligence and forgiveness both as a state and as a trait. Respondents (605) aged 18–79 completed the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory, the Heartland Forgiveness
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Recent attacks on character education in a UK context: a case of mistaken identities? Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Kristján Kristjánsson
ABSTRACT This article offers a response to some recent critiques of character education in a UK context, in general, and the approach promoted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, in particular. The article argues that critiques of current UK character education betray an inadequate grasp of significant factions within its group of advocates, and that there is reason to question the suggested
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Conditions for identity development among religious immigrant youth Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Linda Vikdahl, Johan Liljestrand
ABSTRACT Young people with immigrant backgrounds are especially exposed in their identity formation. They may face particular difficulties if they also identify themselves as religious, such as being positioned as odd and different in negative ways by their peers. Focusing on the social conditions for developing an integrated identity, and through the theoretic lens of dialogical self-theory, this
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Growth in patience in Christian Moral Wisdom and contemporary positive psychology Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Timothy Pawl, Juliette L. Ratchford, Sarah A. Schnitker
ABSTRACT Moral education requires interdisciplinary engagement across philosophy, psychology, and education. Positive psychologists regularly acknowledge the breadth and depth of wisdom regarding the cultivation of virtues present in philosophical and religious texts and consult such writings when creating constructs, but they are less prone to integrate scientific findings with historical texts as
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Assessing the impact of the student voice project on shaping the ethos of Anglican primary schools: a study focusing on the Diocese of Llandaff Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Leslie J. Francis, David W. Lankshear, Emma L. Eccles, Ursula McKenna
ABSTRACT Inspection criteria for schools with a religious character in England and Wales require the sponsoring body to arrange assessment on aspects of the distinctiveness of the school ethos. The Student Voice Project was designed to include year-five and year-six students in this process. Within the Diocese of Llandaff, the Diocesan Director of Education utilised the customised reports prepared
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Religious education and the Anglo-world: the impact of empire, Britishness, and decolonisation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Tamson Pietsch
(2021). Religious education and the Anglo-world: the impact of empire, Britishness, and decolonisation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 146-147.
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Educating for the world or ‘religion and worldviews education’? Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Daniel Moulin-Stożek
(2020). Educating for the world or ‘religion and worldviews education’? Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 385-387.
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Kairos moments and serendipitous insights: lived experiences of children as a means of grace in the Godly Play room Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Brendan Hyde
ABSTRACT This article reports on a small-scale research project conducted in Australia investigating the perceptions of some Godly Play storytellers in relation to children as a means of grace. Seven Godly Play storytellers were chosen indiscriminately to participate by writing a short anecdote about a time during one of their Godly Play classes in which a child acted as a means of grace. A phenomenological
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Is safe space safe? Being gay and college faculty across religious moral communities Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Fanhao Nie, Anne Price
ABSTRACT Prior research on the effect of religion on prejudicial attitudes against sexual minorities has looked into how religion may influence public attitudes towards homosexual behaviours, gay marriage, and same-sex adoption. However, less is known about how religion may influence employment discrimination against gays in the education industry where prejudice and discrimination against gays frequently
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The lasting legacy of the European Reformation of the 16th century: Protestant foundations of modern educational reasoning Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Daniel Tröhler
ABSTRACT This article argues that crucial elements of the three most important theoretical models of twentieth-century education can be traced back to three Protestant denominations that were developed in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First, rather than to look in depth at the Protestant Reformers’ own educational ideas, the paper examines their perceptions of how the social or
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Love for Allah and love for others: exploring the connection between religious affect and empathy among Muslim adolescents in England Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Humeyra Guleryuz Erken, Leslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna
ABSTRACT The study explores the connection between love for Allah (conceptualised as religious affect) and love for others (conceptualised as empathy) among a sample of 919 self-identified Muslim adolescents (between the ages of 11 and 14 years) attending schools in England. The data demonstrated that, after controlling for personal factors (age and sex) and for psychological factors (extraversion
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Student perceptions of a trial Religious Education curriculum: establishing baseline data Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 William Sultmann, Janeen Lamb, David Hall, Gary Borg
ABSTRACT Australian students’ perception of a trial Religious Education (RE) programme is the focus of this paper. Students (N = 1478) from 37 schools, primary and secondary, completed an online survey that included six Likert style items that aligned with six RE development principles that guided the development of the trial. Curriculum development was inclusive and student centred, giving voice to
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Reforming religious education: power and knowledge in a worldviews curriculum Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 David Perfect
(2021). Reforming religious education: power and knowledge in a worldviews curriculum. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 144-146.
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A qualitative analysis of Finnish RE students’ perceptions of their professional development during their initial teacher education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Kaisa Viinikka, Martin Ubani
ABSTRACT This article studies three RE (religious education) student teachers’ perceptions about their professional development from the beginning to the end of their initial teacher education. The focus of study was to investigate via an inductive content analysis if there are the same kind of phases in RE teacher education and how those phases are in relation to their training. Based on their characterisations
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An investigation into secondary teachers’ views of argumentation in science and religious education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Liam Guilfoyle, Sibel Erduran, Wonyong Park
ABSTRACT Citizens often face dilemmas where they need to make decisions that impact our lives and are related to science and religion. For example, genetic cloning, nuclear energy and climate change can potentially appeal to moral and religious values as well as scientific knowledge. The ability to coordinate knowledge and values in reaching justified conclusions has thus become increasingly important
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Sacred and secular martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914 Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Peter Webster
(2021). Sacred and secular martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 142-147.
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Explaining the relationship between religiosity and increased wellbeing avoidance of identity threat as a key factor Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Rita Phillips, Vincent Connelly, Mark Burgess
ABSTRACT Previous research outlines a relationship between religiosity and increased mental and physical wellbeing. However, to date findings from quantitative and qualitative research do not offer an unambiguous explanation for this relationship. The study addresses this gap in knowledge by examining underlying identity construction processes in relation to religiosity and wellbeing in the light of
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The Church of England and British politics since 1900 Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Michael Brierley
(2021). The Church of England and British politics since 1900. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 143-144.
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The outrageous idea of Christian teaching Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-06-28 Recep Utku
(2020). The outrageous idea of Christian teaching. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 516-517.
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Editorial: reforming religious education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Stephen G. Parker
(2020). Editorial: reforming religious education. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 253-254.
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Religious identity commitments of emerging adults raised in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Anne-Marije de Bruin-Wassinkmaat, Jos de Kock, Elsbeth Visser-Vogel, Cok Bakker, Marcel Barnard
ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines the religious identity commitments of 18 emerging adults who grew up in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. During in-depth narrative interviews with photo elicitation, the participants reflected on who they are and the meaning of religion to their identity. Our thematic data analysis reveals that the participants’ religious identity commitments are
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Culture, structure, and rational interests in interdenominational networking: a case study of Romanian Orthodox Seminarians Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-06-21 Mihaela-Alexandra Tudor, Denise Elaine Burrill Simion
ABSTRACT This article is a snapshot of the current attitudes manifested by the Romanian Orthodox seminarians towards interdenominational networking from the perspectives of individual interests, cultural representation, and institutional structure. Using the interdenominational networking as a social platform, the article considers the tension between rational choice and structuralism, whereby an Orthodox
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Social networks, attachment and integration: understanding the church attendance of Romanian migrants Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Sergiu Gherghina, Aurelian Plopeanu
ABSTRACT Why do some migrants attend church more than others? This article uses an original survey conducted on first-generation Romanian migrants to identify the determinants of such a behaviour. Our study tests the explanatory power of three categories of determinants: migrants’ social network, their ties with the home country and the integration in the host society. The analysis uses individual-level
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Education and the good life: Petrarch’s insights and the current research on well-being Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-05-18 Ljiljana Radenovic
ABSTRACT According to Petrarch, the main goal of the liberal arts is to help us live a good life and become wise, virtuous, and serene. This is also something achieved via true Christian faith. In this paper, my goal is twofold. First, I review Petrarch’s general attitude to the good life and the ways to live it, along with his advice on how to remain content or regain peace in the face of difficulties
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Mystical experience and emotional wellbeing: a study among Australian church leaders Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-05-13 Leslie J. Francis, Ruth Powell, Andrew Village
ABSTRACT The psychological and pathological correlates of mystical experience have been debated since the early days of the psychology of religion. In the present study the association between mystical experience and emotional wellbeing was tested among 1,266 Australian church leaders who completed the Eysenck Neuroticism Scale alongside the Francis-Louden Mystical Orientation Scale. No significant
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‘Twofold otherness’: on religion, spirituality, and home schooling in the Czech Republic Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Andrea Beláňová, Yvona Kostelecká, Kateřina Machovcová, Marta McCabe
ABSTRACT In the Czech Republic, home schooling is an increasing but still rare education practice. The country is at the same time not favourable to public demonstrations of religion. In such a specific context, we investigated the intersection of religion, spirituality, and home schooling. Drawing on a broad ethnographic research design, we identify three levels of strategies employed by religious
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Critical religious education in practice: a teacher’s guide for the secondary classroom Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-04-26 Lat Blaylock
(2020). Critical religious education in practice: a teacher’s guide for the secondary classroom. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 514-515.
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Young adults in relationships and singles: religiosity and the structure of values Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-04-24 Dorota Czyżowska, Ewa Gurba, Arkadiusz Białek, Natalia Czyżowska, Alicja Kalus
ABSTRACT The study aims to investigate the differences concerning the religiosity (understood as the placement of religious constructs in the structure of a personality) and value system of young adults who are married, people in non-formalized relationships, and singles. The participants of the study were 321 women and 302 men aged 22 to 42 (45% singles, 55% in relationships). The results of the research
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Evincing the soul of a city Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-04-16 Alistair Brown
ABSTRACT Background: This article outlines how poetry is able to configure the soul of a cityscape through the modes of personification and metaphors of public space. Purpose: It argues that these modes are so intertwined in reality that it is possible to gather a sense of a city’s soul through experiential, rhythmical, temporal and transmigratory images of cityscape. Design: The article applies a
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Religious literacy: spaces of teaching and learning about religion and belief Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-04-07 Stephen Parker
(2020). Religious literacy: spaces of teaching and learning about religion and belief. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 129-131.
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Beyond the big six religions: expanding the boundaries in the teaching of religions and worldviews Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-03-22 Geoff Teece
(2020). Beyond the big six religions: expanding the boundaries in the teaching of religions and worldviews. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 245-247.
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Religious literacy: a way forward for religious education? Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Patricia Hannam, Gert Biesta, Sean Whittle, David Aldridge
ABSTRACT In this paper, the central findings of a research project into religious literacy are presented. This project sought to answer the question as to whether or not religious literacy can be a way forward for religious education (RE). Starting with the idea of ‘literacy’, dominant approaches religious literacy in the literature are examined. An educational argument is developed, building on a
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Religious literacy in the curriculum in compulsory education in Austria, Scotland and Sweden - a three-country policy comparison Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-03-17 Kerstin von Brömssen, Heinz Ivkovits, Graeme Nixon
ABSTRACT This article presents analyses of curricula in religious education (RE) for public schools in Austria, Scotland, and Sweden. A curricula is the plan that outlines the goals, content and outcomes in education. A critical discourse analysis approach (CDA) is used to explore how each national RE curricula constructs (a) the aims, status and purpose of state-maintained RE (b) the teaching and
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The figure of the child in contemporary evangelicalism Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-03-16 Greg Smith
(2020). The figure of the child in contemporary evangelicalism. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 242-245.
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This is your hour. Christian intellectuals in Britain and the crisis of Europe, 1937-49 Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Peter Webster
(2020). This is your hour. Christian intellectuals in Britain and the crisis of Europe, 1937-49. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 247-248.
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Changing values and religiosity: the case of the emerging Community movement in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Pietari Hannikainen
ABSTRACT Contrary to earlier assumptions, not (only) is religion declining in modern societies, it is taking new roles in the complex development of (late) modern societies. In empirical studies on values, religiosity has been connected primarily to traditionalist value patterns that highlight stability, traditionality and security. This article, focusing on data collected from members of a renewal
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Good in theory: a review of Michael Hand’s Theory of Moral Education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-02-12 Andrew Copson
(2020). Good in theory: a review of Michael Hand’s Theory of Moral Education. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 229-230.
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Dealing with illiberal and discriminatory aspects of faith in religious education: a case study of Quebec’s Ethics and Religious Culture curriculum Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-02-05 Bruce Maxwell, Sivane Hirsch
ABSTRACT Taking Quebec’s mandatory religious education curriculum, Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC), as a case study, this paper examines the question of whether it is legitimate to teach about the illiberal and discriminatory aspects of religious belief and practice—misogyny, homophobia, racial discrimination and the like—in a religious education class. This paper seeks an answer the question by
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Right answer, wrong problem: commentary on A Theory of Moral Education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-02-04 Ben Kotzee
(2020). Right answer, wrong problem: commentary on A Theory of Moral Education. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 234-236.
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Defining morality, applying standards and shaping attitudes: replies to Copson, Hobbs and Kotzee Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-01-30 Michael Hand
ABSTRACT In the preceding articles, Andrew Copson, Angie Hobbs and Ben Kotzee make a number of interesting criticisms of my book, A Theory of Moral Education. Here I offer some replies.
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A call to moral arms: review of Michael Hand A Theory of Moral Education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-01-30 Angie Hobbs
(2020). A call to moral arms: review of Michael Hand A Theory of Moral Education. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 231-233.
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Researching non-formal religious education in Europe Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-01-24 Andrew Peterson
(2020). Researching non-formal religious education in Europe. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 241-242.
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Symposium on Michael Hand’s A Theory of Moral Education Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-01-24 Michael Hand
(2020). Symposium on Michael Hand’s A Theory of Moral Education. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 227-228.
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How do people interpret the value concept? Development and evaluation of the value conceptualisation scale using a mixed method approach Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2020-01-08 Lena Seewann, Roland Verwiebe
ABSTRACT Value research has a long and extensive history of theoretical definitions and empirical investigations using large scale quantitative surveys. However, the way the general population understands, defines, and relates to the concept of values, and how these views vary across individuals is seldom addressed. The present study examined subjective interpretations of the term through focus group
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Parents’ prejudices or own religious orientation of Pakistani children: determinants of achievement-related prejudices for opposite gender and sect and their relation with mental health Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2019-12-19 Aasia Alam Khan, Jamil A. Malik, Sadia Musharraf, Christopher Alan Lewis
ABSTRACT The present study examined the role of parents’ prejudices and their children’s own religious orientation in the formation of children’s prejudices against the opposite gender and sect. A total of 280 children including 104 (36%) girls were recruited from various schools. Children age range from 12 to 18 years with mean ± SD = 14.60 (1.42) years. Parents of the children (including 175 fathers
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Religious literacy of Australia’s Gen Z teens: diversity and social inclusion Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2019-12-09 Anna Halafoff, Andrew Singleton, Gary Bouma, Mary Lou Rasmussen
ABSTRACT Australia is a culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse country, however, learning about the religious dimensions of this superdiversity is inadequately reflected in the national school curriculum, notwithstanding recent attempts to address this at the state level in Victoria. Debates regarding the role of religion in school have raged across the country for decades and have impeded
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Remembrance Day practices in schools: meaning-making in social memory during the First World War centenary Journal of Beliefs & Values (IF 0.492) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Annie Haight, Susannah Wright, David Aldridge, Patrick Alexander
ABSTRACT Each November, commemoration of the First World War armistice (and subsequent military events and conflicts) is almost ubiquitous in UK schools and has been given increased importance during the centenary years of the First World War. Yet as seemingly isolated occasions outside the regular curriculum, school practices of remembrance, and the understandings and perceptions surrounding them
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