World Religions

World Religions
Author: Gabriel Arquilevich
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1557346240

Curriculum guide to teaching about the world's more prominent religions to help students achieve a greater tolerance of different cultures for grade 6 but coudl be used in grades 5-8.

World Religions and Cults Volume 1

World Religions and Cults Volume 1
Author: Bodie Hodge
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015-08-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1614584605

Religions in today’s culture seem to be multiplying. Have you ever wondered why certain religions believe and practice what they do? Or how they view the Bible? This volume delves into these and other engaging questions, such as: How can a Christian witness to people in these religions? Do these other religions believe in creation and a Creator? How do we deal with these religions from a biblical authority perspective? Many religions and cults discussed in this first volume openly affirm that the Bible is true, but then something gets in their way. And there is a common factor every time—man’s fallible opinions. In one way or another the Bible gets demoted, reinterpreted, or completely ignored. Man’s ideas are used to throw the Bible’s clear teaching out the window while false teachings are promoted. This book is a must for laymen, church leaders, teachers, and students to understand the trends in our culture and around the world where certain religions dominate, helping you discern truth and guard your faith. When you understand a religion’s origins and teachings, you are in a better position to know how to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ as you take the good news to those in false religions.

Understanding World Religions

Understanding World Religions
Author: Irving Hexham
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310314488

Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead to the same God or the same moral life fails to account for the distinctive origins and radically different teachings found across the world’s many religions. Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out. Of particular importance is Hexham’s decision to explore African religions, which have frequently been absent from major religion texts. He surveys these in addition to varieties of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Issues in Religious Education

Issues in Religious Education
Author: Lynne Broadbent
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780415262538

Religious education in schools continues to be a subject of debate and is especially topical in our multicultural society. This text is designed to give students and teachers a contextual and theoretical background to this subject.

Religions of the World

Religions of the World
Author: Michael Lees
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Religions
ISBN: 9781792438202

Religion in Multicultural Education

Religion in Multicultural Education
Author: Farideh Salili
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607527219

The National Association for Multicultural Education in Washington, D.C., listed a number of issues that the school curriculum should address with reference to multicultural education, including racism, sexism, classism, linguicism, ablism, ageism, heterosexism, and religious intolerance. It is noteworthy that of all these issues, religion is about the only one that throughout history people are willing to die for, although whether what is at issue is really religion or other things such as territory is another matter. It is also interesting that all the others have isms in their names but religious issues are characterized by intolerance. Perhaps we should try to understand this intolerance and look at what steps might help to alleviate it. However, while intolerance might seem a simple thing, understanding what is behind it and how it plays such a crucial role in religion requires what we refer to in the Introduction chapter as a multifaceted approach at multiple levels. It is not enough just to try to dispel stereotypes of followers of other religions, or to point out commonalities in world religions. We should, for example, try to understand and appreciate how adherents of other religions try to answer questions regarding their adaptation to the contemporary environment. It is through understanding how different religions coexist side by side at various levels that we truly come to learn about religion in multicultural education.

Teaching Christianity

Teaching Christianity
Author: Clive Erricker
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1987
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780718826345

Revised and updated, this edition of "Teaching Christianity" is a tool for today's teacher. The place of Christianity is at the heart of the debate in religious education. This text covers the issues raised for teachers, whatever their own standpoints and beliefs.

World Faiths in Education

World Faiths in Education
Author: W. Owen Cole
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429647476

First published in 1978. The world religions movement gave way to a new form of religious education which was wide ranging in content and open in approach. This development raised a number of issues. How broad should the syllabus be? Should Humanism and Marxism be included? How should Christianity be taught? What role has the believer of any one faith in the teaching of RE? As curriculum development gathers momentum so the need to discuss such questions becomes urgent. This book is devoted to examining the place of world faiths in education by members of a variety of faiths. It will help students and teachers to think their way through the many challenges facing RE today. The book argues a new framework for the subject. The contributors hope that they have provided a sign-post pointing to a future in which all who are concerned that children should grow up with an understanding of the ultimate meaning of life, whatever their own faiths, may be able to work together to make the subject vital and worthwhile.