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As human values are challenged by monetary values, there is an urgent sense of need for the values of the human spirit. This is the context in which there is a world-wide revival of interest in spiritual, moral and religious education.
Is
it sunday schools in which sad-looking old people make little
children memorise bits of the Bible? Nuns with rulers? Missionaries
in pith helmets dictating to village people in jungle clearings?
Maybe
it was like that a hundred years ago. Today religious, moral
and spiritual education has become an important international
concern, often at government level. Informed by social science
research, religious educators of many spiritual traditions
are seeking to communicate an understanding of faith in a
pluralistic world which is so often dominated by monetary
values.
This religious
education magazine will describe current developments in the
United Kingdom and the United States of America. You will
learn about the professional networks, centres of excellence
and specialist organisations which make Britain and the USA
focal points for religious educators around the world.
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