What is meant by 'religious understanding'?
Walshe, KSJ
Date: 1 April 2016
Journal
REtoday magazine, Professional REflection section
Publisher
RE Today Services
Abstract
This article sets out to explore what might
be meant by the term ‘religious
understanding’. Although not often talked
about, this term appears in a number
of significant RE documents. Nowhere,
however, do any of these documents
explain clearly what it means and what it
has to do with RE. The result is that there
are many different ...
This article sets out to explore what might
be meant by the term ‘religious
understanding’. Although not often talked
about, this term appears in a number
of significant RE documents. Nowhere,
however, do any of these documents
explain clearly what it means and what it
has to do with RE. The result is that there
are many different ways of understanding
the term, each with implications for RE.
Essentially, the question has to do with
whether the ‘understanding’ is ‘religious’
because it has something to do with
understanding religion or whether it is
‘religious’ because it is, essentially, a
particular kind of understanding.
This article will take a brief look at some
of the key ways in which the term has been
understood and will begin to explore what
‘religious understanding’ might mean for
religious education.
School of Education
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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