Hermeneutics and religious education / edited by H. Lombaerts & D. Pollefeyt.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The emergence of hermeneutics in religious education theories: an overview / Herman Lombaerts, Didier Pollefeyt -- The emergence of hermeneutics in Catholic religious pedagogy and the consequences of this development: a review of H. Halbfas' book Fundamentalkatechetik (1968) / Norbert Mette -- The hermeneutic condition of religious education / Friedrich Schweitzer -- Response to Friedrich Schweitzer: "The hermeneutic condition of religious education" / Geffrey B. Kelly -- Abductive hermeneutics: a pragmatic key to the learning paradox / Chris A.M. Hermans -- Tradition and reflexivity in religious education / Wilna A.J. Meijer -- The official doctrine of the church versus the teacher's personal frame of reference / Steven Janssens -- Learning religion in a plural society / Paul Vermeer -- Response to Paul Vermeer: "Learning religion in a plural society" / Marianne Sawicki -- "Come and you will see" (John 1,39): dialogical authority and normativity of the future in the Fourth Gospel and in religious education / Reimund Bieringer -- The act of reading the Bible: the contribution of semiotics / Jacques Maas -- Modern narrative identities and the Bible: notes on a subversive concept of religious education / Bert Roebben -- Beyond correlation strategies: teaching religion in a detraditionalised and pluralised context / Lieven Boeve -- A growing drift between contemporary culture and religious education: the need for a double hermeneutic / Cyril de Souza -- No graven thing: renouncing idolatry in religious education / Marianne Sawicki -- The search for meaning through documentary and docudrama in the teaching of Christology to undergraduate students of religious education / Geffrey B. Kelly -- Religious education as conversation: schools as communities of discernment / Jacques Haers -- Some perspectives on religious maturity / Dirk Hutsebaut -- Empirical theology and hermeneutical religious education: a case study concerning adolescent attitudes toward abortion / Leslie J. Francis -- A three-dimensional methodology for a Christian-inspired ethical education / Roger Burggraeve -- What is religion and whose faith is it anyway? Some issues concerning the nature and normativity of religion, and the risks of religious education / Jeff Astley.