Facing the Unknown Future

All contributions to the volume were developed in the context of the European Network for Religious Education through Contextual Approaches (ENRECA). In the 20 year history of the research community of ENRECA several times books are published on contextual factors of Religious Education. This volume has a special focus on different perspectives of 'time' in relation to the tradition, present and future perspectives of Religious Education in Europe.

During the 20 year history of the European Network for Religious Education through Contextual Approaches (ENRECA), several books have been published on the Subject of Religious Education, from sociological, psychological or anthropological perspectives and always in the contextual Settings of national educational frameworks and other specific culturally bound phenomena. Also, very often, an international comparative perspective was included. The shared goal was not so much to reflect on religion as such, and on its changing doctrines, institutions and prescriptions, but to try and understand religion in the specific European contexts of secularization and the plurality of life orientations, and to understand how religion becomes manifest in education in a variety of concrete policies and classroom practices, reflecting various social issues. This volume, marking the 20th anniversary of ENRECA, has a specific focus on the contextual dimension of time.

Auteur
ter Avest, InaIna ter Avest is em. Professor 'Education and Philosophy of Life' at the Holland University of Applied Sciences, and former senior lecturer and researcher Pedagogy of Religious Education at the VU University in Amsterdam. She has a private coaching & consultancy practice, with a focus on existential questions and (personal and organisational) identity development. Bakker, CokCok Bakker is Professor of Religious and Worldview Education at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University and Professor of 'Normative Professionalization' at the HU University of Applied Sciences at Utrecht. He is co-editor of the bookSeries Religious Diversity and Education in Europe and senior Educational Consultant. Ipgrave, JuliaJulia Ipgrave is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton, London. She is lead investigator for the London strand of the Religion and Dialogue in Modern Society research project (World Academy of Religions, University of Hamburg). Leonhard, SilkeSilke Leonhard is Rector of the Loccum Institute of Religious Education and Privatdozentin in Practical Theology/Religious Education at the Department of Protestant Theology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. She did her PhD at Leibniz University, Hannover, in 2005. Her research focuses on phenomenology, RE teachers' professionalism, theories of RE, and performative didactics. Schreiner, PeterDr. Peter Schreiner is director of the Comenius-Institut, Protestant Centre for Research and Development of Education, Münster. His main research interests are education philosophy and the concept of "Bildung", comparative religious education, intercultural and interreligious learning.