The Right to Religious Literacy

Ward, Leo R.

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“…However, prior to the publication of Wright's Religious Education in the Secondary school: Prospects for Religious Literacy (Wright 1993) it is difficult to find any examples of advocates of RE using or referring to it. An early example of the phrase is found in a short article in the American journal Religious Education by Ward titled The Right to Religious literacy (Ward 1953). The following year the sociologist Vladimir de Lissovoy published an article on A Sociological Approach to Religious literacy (De Lissovoy 1954).…”

Section: Religious Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious literacy: a way forward for religious education?

Hannam

Biesta

Whittle

et al. 2020

Journal of Beliefs & Values

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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 definition of literacy in relation as being an effective navigation of a domain. At this point a question is raised about whether domains should be accepted as they are, or whether education needs also to work with students on the ability to raise critical questions about how domains are defined and policed. This moves the discussion from functional literacy towards critical literacy; highlighting the political dimension of literacy. By way of conclusion we consider what all this means for RE, and whether or not religious literacy can offer a way forward for RE.

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Section: Religious Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%