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Addressing religious extremism through theologically informed religious education

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The article will put the case for a robust theology to underpin religious education with potential to address contemporary matters in a way that genuinely informs and stimulates critical and self-reflective knowing. It will utilize a Habermasian frame of reference in constructing this argument. The article will then explore religious extremism, with focus on Islamist inspired Jihadism, as a case study that illustrates the need for theological analysis to underpin any effective addressing of the issue by religious education.

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Lovat, T. Addressing religious extremism through theologically informed religious education. j. relig. educ. 67, 103–114 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40839-019-00083-5

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