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Textbook Violence
Professor James R. Lewis (Ed.)
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Description for Textbook Violence
Paperback. Textbook Violence offers critical perspectives on how textbooks deal or not deal with issues of conflict and violence in religions. Editor(s): Lewis, Professor James R.; Andreassen, Bengt-Ove. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HRAM9; JN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 412.
Facing issues of violence and conflict, authors of textbooks for Religious Education (RE) choose a range of different strategies. While some try to write as non-controversially as possible about such issues, other authors choose to leave them completely out. Even in the academic study of religions, a well-established perspective is that religion is primarily something good, and important for societies as well as for human development. Such basic presumptions/perspectives are often nurtured by an apologetic orientation to the representation of religion. In some cases, religious violence and conflict are therefore considered disruptive forces that destroy what is true, ... Read more
Facing issues of violence and conflict, authors of textbooks for Religious Education (RE) choose a range of different strategies. While some try to write as non-controversially as possible about such issues, other authors choose to leave them completely out. Even in the academic study of religions, a well-established perspective is that religion is primarily something good, and important for societies as well as for human development. Such basic presumptions/perspectives are often nurtured by an apologetic orientation to the representation of religion. In some cases, religious violence and conflict are therefore considered disruptive forces that destroy what is true, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
411g
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781792599
SKU
V9781781792599
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About Professor James R. Lewis (Ed.)
James R. Lewis is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromso. Bengt-Ove Andreassen is Associate Professor in Religious Studies in the Department of Education at the University of Tromso. Suzanne Anett Thobro is a Fellow in the Department of History and Religious Studies, University of Tromso.
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