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This volume brings together two core concepts that are central to understanding the social and public significance of religions and theologies within the contemporary world and are therefore of key importance to the discipline of religious education: diversity and intersectionality. Religious diversity requires an understanding of religions and theologies and their roles within a plural society. However, the effect of the intersectionality of multiple social identities on a person's flourishing illuminates the ways in which the broader complexity of diversity must be viewed from different perspectives.
These core constructs were brought together in a recent conference convened by the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values, the leading international association for religious educators across the world. This volume presents twelve key contributions made to the seminar, spanning both conceptual and empirical approaches, and represents a unique collection of international perspectives on the interlocking themes of intersectionality and diversity.
List of contents
CONTENTS: Julian Stern: Foreword - Jeff Astley/Leslie J. Francis: Introduction - Kerstin von Brömssen: Is there a Place for Intersectionality in Research on Religious and Values Education? - Karin Sporre: Gender in Research on Religious Education and Values Formation - Elisabeth Arweck: Religious Diversity in the UK: Do Thirteen- to
Sixteen-Year-Old Students Perceive it as a Site of Multiple Intersections? - Leslie J. Francis/Gareth Byrne/Bernadette Sweetman/Gemma Penny: Growing Up Female and Catholic in the Republic of Ireland and in Scotland: The Intersectionality of Religious Identity, Religious Saliency, and Nationality - Tove Nicolaisen: Can Religious Education (and Students) Benefit from an Intersectional Approach to Identity? - Doug Blomberg: Will/ing Acceptance of Others - Dörthe Vieregge: Religion in the Lives of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Young People: Findings of an Empirical Study in Hamburg, Germany - Denise Cush: Combating Sexism, Homophobia, Religionism, and Subjectism: Equality and Diversity in Religious Studies and Religious Education - Dzintra Ilisko: Women and Religion: Life Stories of Women Academics in Latvia - Mario O. D'Souza: Equality, Difference, and Our Historical Condition: The Error of Conceptualism and the Liberation of Education - Bernd Schröder: Coping with Diversity by Means of Inclusive Education: Reflections from a Christian (Protestant) Perspective on If and How Theological Arguments can Support a Pedagogical Concept - Jeff Astley: 'I warn you not to be ordinary': Reflections on the Intersectionality of Ordinariness
About the author
Jeff Astley is the Alister Hardy Professor of Religious and Spiritual Experience at Glyndwr University, Wales, UK.
Leslie J. Francis is Professor of Religions and Education at the University of Warwick and Director of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit at Warwick University, England, UK.
