tailieunhanh - Global Citizenship, Cultural Citizenship and World Religions in Religion Education

This paper examines the reasons for studying religion and the necessity for teacher, student, administrative or parental involvement in the process of learning about religious diversity. Chidester suggests that the study of religion and religious diversity can usefully be brought into conversation with recent research on new formations of citizenship. | Free download from Global Citizenship Cultural Citizenship and World Religions in Religion Education David Chidester HSRC Publishers Free download from Occasional Paper Series Number 1 Series Editor Dr Wilmot James Executive Director Social Cohesion and Integration Human Sciences Research Council Published by the Human Sciences Research Council Publishers Private Bag X9182 Cape Town South Africa Human Sciences Research Council First published 2002 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic mechanical or other means including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. ISSN 1684-2839 Produced by comPress Distributed in South Africa by Blue Weaver Marketing and Distribution . Box 30370 Tokai Cape Town South Africa 7966. Tel Fax 021 701-7302 email blueweav@ Free download from About the Author David Chidester is a Visiting Fellow at the Social Cohesion and Integration Research Programme of the HSRC. He is Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Cape Town Director of the Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa ICRSA and Co-Director of the International Human Rights Exchange. He is author or editor of fifteen books in the study of religion including Religions of South Africa 1992 Shots in the Streets Violence and Religion in South Africa 1992 Savage Systems Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa 1996 and Christianity A Global History 2000 . .