Freedom and Authority in Religions and Religious Education [Hardcover]

This fascinating collection of essays examines religious experience and tradition. The first part focuses on the nature and sources of authority in each of six major religions and considers how freedom is perceived by them. It goes on to examine the religious contexts of two examples of nations divided within themselves: Northern Ireland and Israel. The second part of the book looks at the process of education, the tensions between freedom and authority and their implications for religious education.

IntroductionBrian Gates
Part One: Religions
1. World Religions: the Boundaries of Belief and UnbeliefJohn Bowker
Freedom and Authority in Particular Traditions
2. Freedom and Authority in BuddhismRichard Gombrich
3. Freedom and Authority in ChristianityBrian Gates
4. Authority and Freedom in HinduismFrank Whaling
5. Authority and Freedom in IslamRiadh El-Droubie
6. Freedom and Authority in JudaismHugo Gryn
7. Freedom and Authority in SikhismPiara Singh Sambhi and W. Owen Cole
Freedom and Authority in the Life of a Nation
8. Freedom and Authority in Northern IrelandJohn Greer
9. Freedom and Authority in IsraelJohn Levy
Part Two: Religious Education
10. Freedom and Authority in Religious EducationJohn Hull
Orthodoxy and Openness: the Experience of Children
11. Orthodoxy and Openness: the Experience of Buddhist ChildrenPeggy Morgan
12. Orthodoxy and Openness: the Experience of Christian ChildrenBrian Gates
13. Orthodoxy and Openness: the Experience of Hindu ChildrenRobert Jackson and Eleanor Nesbitt
14. Orthodoxy and Openness: the Experience of Jewish Children .Clive Lawton
15. Orthodoxy and Openness: the Experience of Muslim ChildrenPeter Woodward
16. Orthodoxy and Openness: the Experience of Sikh ChildrenKanwaljit Kaur-Singh
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