Values, Human Rights and Religious Education

Jeff Astley is the Alister Hardy Professor of Religious and Spiritual Experience within the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit at the University of Warwick and Honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.Leslie J. Francis is Professor of Religions and Education at the University of Warwick and Director of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit.David W. Lankshear is Research Fellow within the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit at the University of Warwick and Visiting Professor at Glyndwr University.

• Contents: Mary E. Hess: Pursuing Racial Justice in the US: What Religious Educators Need to Learn from the #BlackLivesMatter Movement – Christina Osbeck: Values and Existential Understandings as Parts of Students’ Ethical Competence – Johannes Lähnemann: The Contribution of Interreligious Initiatives to Human Rights Education – Robert Jackson: The Council of Europe, Human Rights, and Education about Religions and other Worldviews – L. Philip Barnes: Values, Human Rights, and Religious Education: A Critical Analysis – James Nelson: The Case for Dialogical Learning as a Signature Pedagogy of Religious Education – Peta Goldburg: The Development of Human Rights within Catholic Social Teaching – Mario O. D'Souza: Values, Human Rights, and Catholic Religious Education – Bernhard Grümme: Human Rights Education and Religious Education: A Catholic Perspective – Marilyn Naidoo: The Impact of Human Rights Discourses on the Multifaith Space of South African Higher Education – Manfred L. Pirner: Religious Education Between Theology and Religious Studies – Bruce Grelle: Worldviews, Ethics, and Ecology: ‘Sustainability’ as a Context for Religious Education – Norman Richardson: Issues and Dilemmas in Human Rights and Religious Education: A Northern Ireland Perspective – Kerstin von Brömssen: Young Students’ Memories and Reflections on the July 22, 2011 Terror Attacks in Norway – Thomas Schlag: Human Rights Education in Religious Education: A Theological Perspective – Manfred L. Pirner: A Social Theory Framework for Relating Human Rights and Religious Education – Karin Sporre: Human Dignity and Human Rights: A Plea for Their Place and Importance in Values Education – John Valk/Muella Selçuk: An Islamic Worldview: A Worldview Framework Approach to Religion in a Modern, Secular, Democratic State – Yaacov J. Katz: Spirituality and Humanistic Values among Graduates of State Modern-Orthodox, State Modern Ultra-Orthodox, and Traditional Ultra-Orthodox High Schools in Israel – Zehavit Gross: Teaching Human Rights and Judaism: Are they Compatible? – Hanan A. Alexander: Human Rights and Religious Education: Toward a Recovery of Humanism in Pedagogy.

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