The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Education

Liam Francis Gearon is Associate Professor in Religious Education in the Department of Education and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. He is also Conjoint Professor at Newcastle University, Australia; Visiting Professor at the Irish Centre for Catholic Studies, MIC, Limerick, Ireland; Extraordinary Professor North-West University, South Africa; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Birmingham.Arniika Kuusisto is Professor (Early Childhood Education), Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK. She is the editor of The Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education.

• Linda Woodhead MBE DD FAcSS: ForewordLiam Francis Gearon and Arniika Kuusisto: IntroductionPart I: Religion and Education: Conceptual and Contextual Framings1: Liam Francis Gearon: Enlightenment's Empire and Apocalyptic Modernity: Religion and Education Revisited2: Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy: Political Secularism and the Governance of Religious Diversity3: Julian Stern: Religion and Education: Pedagogical Imperatives4: Szilvi Watson: Strength, Struggle and Support: Christian Postgraduate Students' Experiences at a Traditional Elite University in EnglandPart II: Researching Religion and Education: Theoretical Frameworks5: Ted Newell: Theological Approaches to Religion and Education6: David Lewin: Philosophical Approaches to Religion and Education7: Alister E. McGrath: Natural Science Approaches to Religion and Education8: Katheryn Kelley and Daniel Lapsley: Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Education9: Terhi Utriainen, Helena Kupari, Linda Annunen, and Maija Butters: Adult Religious Learning: Vernacular and Ethnographic Approaches10: Simon Coleman and Nicholas Howe Bukowski: Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion and Education11: Richard Viladesau: Arts and Aesthetic Approaches to Religion and EducationPart III: Religious Tradition and Education12: Patricia Kieran: Religion and Education from Catholic Perspectives13: Henrik Simojoki: Religion and Education from Protestant Christian Perspectives14: Isaac Calvert: 1. Religion and Education from Jewish Perspectives: Pedagogic Prescriptions from the Babylonian TalmudDLBetween Orthodoxy and Flexibility15: Tuomas Martikainen and Arniika Kuusisto: Islam, Education, and Muslim Diversity16: Gavin Flood: Religion and Education from Hindu Perspectives17: Wolfram Weisse: Interreligious Dialogue in Theology and Religious EducationPart IV: Religion and Education in Comparative International Context18: Myriam Radhouane and Abdeljalil Akkari: Comparative International Research on Religion and Education: The Council of Europe19: Silvio Ferrari: Religion and Education in the European Union Countries: A Comparative Analysis of National Legal Systems20: Jenny Berglund: The Study of Islamic Education in Europe: The Value of Cmparative Studies21: Liam Francis Gearon: Religion, Education and Cultural Materiality: UNESCO World Heritage Sites22: Alexandra Blinkova and Paul Vermeer: Religion and Education in Russia23: Liam Francis Gearon and Arniika Kuusisto: Freedom of Religion and Belief in Finnish Education24: Michael D. Waggoner, W. Y. Alice Chan, and Margaretta Patrick: Religion and Education in the United States and Canada25: Ratna Ghosh and Ali A. Abdi: Education and Religion in Colonial/Postcolonial Contexts: The Case of Indigenous Canada26: Zehavit Gross: Religion and Education in Israel: Ideological Orientations of State Religious Education27: Amy Stambach and Aikande C. Kwayu: Religion and Education in East Africa28: Abdeljalil Akkari and Myriam Radhouane: Schooling and Religion in North and West Africa in Comparative Perspective29: Yonah Matemba: 1. Africa South of the Sahara: An Anticolonial Framework for Religion and Education30: Satoko Fujiwara: Religion and Education in China and Japan31: Terence Lovat: Religion and Education in Australasia and the South-PacificPart V: Religion, Education, and Learning: Practitioner-Professional Research32: Martin Ubani: Discussing Religious Literacy, the 'Religious' and (Inter-) Disciplinarity33: Helena Stockinger: Religious Diversity in Early Childhood Education34: Ellinor Skaremyr, Magdalena Raivio, and Arniika Kuusisto: Caring for the Whole Child in Preschool Education: Repositioning 'Religion' in Socially Sustainable Educational Professionalism35: Saila Poulter and Arto Kallioniemi: Searching for the 'Educational' in Religious and Worldview Education: Contextual Reflections from Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care36: Ednan Aslan: Islam and Education in AustriaPart VI: Critical Global Challenges for Religion and Education37: Manfred Pirner: Religion, Education, and Public Theology38: Ratna Ghosh: Religion, Education, and Extremism39: Roger S. Gottlieb: Religious Education and the Environmental Crisis: Moral, Spiritual, and Political Questions40: Birte Platow: Religion and the Technology of Digitization in Education41: Liam Francis Gearon: Religion, Education, and Postcolonial Theory: Decolonising the Curriculum Reconsidered