This work is designed for students preparing for GCE A Level, and undergraduate students who may be studying Islam for the first time. It covers all the main topics of Islam, including history, the life of Muhammad, the Qur'an, beliefs and teachings, the Muslim way of life and contemporary Islam. These topics are covered in depth, but the structure of the book allows easy access, so that it could be used for coursework assignments by more able GCSE pupils. Other features include: in-depth study...
Access to Religious Studies: Religious Experience (Access To Religious Studies)
by Peter Cole
The Access to Religious Studies series offers a concise and readable introduction to the key areas of religious studies for students and the general reader.Religious Experience looks at the ways we can define religious experience and at religious experience as a basis for faith. It looks at religious experience within the major world religions and explores the role of mystery in religious practice along with the ways in which a sense of the supernatural is created in worship. The book compares t...
Katholischer Religionsunterricht in Europa (Religionspadagogik Im Kontext, #6)
Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion (Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation)
Focusing on the academic study of religion, Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion is the first in a series that grapples with the historicity of identity and the social and rhetorical techniques that make claims to identity possible. In this volume, six previously published essays by scholar of religion Russell T. McCutcheon are each coupled with a new substantive commentary by North American contributors. McCutcheon's essays highlight different identifying claims within the work of a numbe...
Schöpfung als Thema des Religionsunterrichts in der Sekundarstufe II
by Juliane Timmroth
So Ya' Wanna' Be A Teacher! (496 pages) tells the whole amazing true story of what really goes on in the typical American public school. The author was an English teacher for thirty-four years in a middle, junior-high and high school and knows all about the problem student, problem classes, crazy problem parents, student fighting, cheating, the Educational Aristocracy, nutty field trips, administrivia and bizarre assembly programs. The teacher in his career had taught over four thousand students...
In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions as well as religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this change in this memoir of his forty-five-year career in the development of religious studies a...
How To Overcome Financial Lack The Explosive Power Of A Seed (God Wants to Make You Rich, #1)
by Prophet Brian Jordan
Religion - (K)Ein Fach Wie Jedes Andere (Religionspadagogik Innovativ, #26)
by Maria Juen and Viera Pirker
The Next Step in Studying Religion
A collection of essays written specifically to help graduate students of Religious Studies and Theology in their quest to become professional scholars and professors: this candid and yet practical guide is indispensable reading for graduate students of religion (and cognate fields). Contributions aim to encapsulate the 'pearls of wisdom' that each contributor feels would have assisted them when they themselves were graduate students. Many of the problematic themes of studying religion or religio...
Die Einfuhrung der tridentinischen Schulreformen - Geburtsstunde des heutigen katholischen Religionsunterrichts?
by Johann Mair