Volume 11: Issue 4-October 2008
(ABSTRACTS)

ARTICLES

“Religious Education and Information Technology: Challenges and Problems”
Seyed Sajjadi, Tarbiat Modares University

Read Full Text (subscription restrictions may apply.)
With advances in information technology, the velocity of information production on the global level has expanded as well. This acceleration has lead to the delegitimizing of knowledge, the equating of information with knowledge and the giving of predominance to information rather than knowledge. This advance has created epistemological challenges for the process of religious education. At the same time, the growth of the internet has created a “rhizomatic space” possessing new methodological characteristics that create problems for religious education. Information technology generates a “hyper-textual learning space,” which weakens the place of traditional texts in the learning process, particularly in the traditional processes of religious education process. This hyper-textual development is especially problematic for religious education in conservative or fundamentalist traditions. This article analyzes the epistemological, methodological and contextual problems and challenges posed by information technology for traditional religious education processes.

“The Ethics of Effective Teaching : Challenges from the Religious Right and Critical Pedagogy”
Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University

“Teaching Religious Doubt with Toulmin’s Model of Reasoning”
Milton Horne, William Jewell College

“Faith in the Classroom: The Perspective of a Pastor Called to College Teaching”
Thomas Martin, Susquehanna University

“Murder, He Wrote: Introducing Christian Ethics through One Question in the Summa”
William George, Dominican University

“Role-Playing and Religion: Using Games to Educate Millennials”
Adam Porter, Illinois College