John I Anson is currently Associate Dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling, having, until recently, been Director of Initial Teacher Education. He gained his Ph.D. at the University of Lancaster and has previously taught as a Principal Teacher of RE in the North East of Scotland. He has undertaken empirical research projects that include aesthetic education, film and digital literacies, children s rights and participation, and issues in the transition from initial teacher education to the induction year. His publications include philosophy of education, Religious Education, and children s rights. He is Convenor of the Research on Children s Rights in Education at the European Educational Research Association.

Alison Jasper is co-founder of the University of Stirling s programme in Gender Studies and currently, Programme Director in Religion within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She gained her Ph.D. at the University of Glasgow and has previously taught RE at a number of schools in the North East of England and in Glasgow. She has participated in research projects on RE and is the author of The Shining Garment of the Text (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) and Because of Beauvoir: Christianity and the Cultivation of Female Genius (Baylor UP, 2012).

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This book is concerned with re-imagining Religious Education (RE) as this is practiced in schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK and in a wide variety of international educational contexts.

On the basis of a critical analysis of current theory and practice in RE the authors argue that this education

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Introduction

Part I: diagnostic

1 Diagnosing indifference: an historical analysis

2 Assembling RE: spaces, relations, and translations

Part II: thinking otherwise resisting indifference

3 Thinking otherwise: Spinoza and Foucault

4 Thinking otherwise: gender in the mix

5 Thinking otherwise: the anthropology of islam

Part III: remediation beyond indifference

6 Remediation: imagining otherwise