Hermeneutics of Religious Education

David Aldridge is Reader in Education at Brunel University, UK.

• IntroductionPart I: Hermeneutics, Education and Religion1. Religious Education - Museum or Temple?2. What is a 'philosophical hermeneutics'?3. Dialogue, Tradition and Truth4. Hermeneutics and Education5. Hermeneutics and ReligionPart II: Hermeneutics and Religious Education6. Aims and Subject Matter of Religious Education7. Critical Religious Education: A Hermeneutic InterventionAfterwordReferencesIndex

This book offers an excellent contribution to current debates in RE and beyond. It draws together and explores in depth a number of philosophical issues that have influenced RE, including phenomenology ... [and] offers a challenge to engage and to travel with the author and to question and engage with one's own perspective alongside those presented in the book. It is a book that should appear on the reading list of all those training to teach RE.