On the Edge

1. Front Matter

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2. On the Edge: A Biographical Approach to Pedagogical Theory Development

   • Ina ter Avest

   Pages 1-10

3. The Real Talks

   • Cok Bakker

   Pages 11-21

4. The Challenge of Double Reflexivity

   • Gunther Dietz

   Pages 23-35

5. My Personal Contexts

   • Hans-Günter Heimbrock

   Pages 37-46

6. Religion as a Special World of Meaning Set Apart

   • Chris Hermans

   Pages 47-55

7. Religious Education and the Arts of Interpretation Revisited

   • Robert Jackson

   Pages 57-68

8. Religion as a Gift

   • Fedor Kozyrev

   Pages 69-79

9. Innovation of Religious Education

   • Henk Kuindersma

   Pages 81-91

10. Doing and Undergoing

    • Alma Lanser

    Pages 93-102

11. Reason and Religion

    • Wilna A. J. Meijer

    Pages 103-113

12. Conversation that Matters

    • Mary Elizabeth Moore

    Pages 115-125

13. Jonah was my Religious Teacher

    • Bram de Muynck

    Pages 127-136

14. Conflict or Cohesion?

    • Ina ter Avest

    Pages 137-149

15. The Best and the Worst that has Been Said and Done

    • Doret de Ruyter

    Pages 151-161

16. Religious Education, Identity and Faith in (Post-)Modernity: More than a Biographical Approach?

    • Friedrich Schweitzer

    Pages 163-174

17. Religious Education Among Friends and Strangers

    • Jack L. Seymour

    Pages 175-185

18. In Search of a Religious Education Approach

    • Geir Skeie

    Pages 187-198

19. Responding to Pluralism and Globalization in Religious Education

    • Marian de Souza

    Pages 199-210

20. Interreligious Dialogue

    • Wolfram Weisse

    Pages 211-222

For the first time, leading scholars in Religious Education and Citizenship Education reflect upon ‘the making of’ of their theoretical framework, in honour of Siebren Miedema. In this Liber Amicorum, in retrospect these scholars recognize, implicitly or more explicitly, ‘critical incidents’ and they honour ‘critical persons’ for the decisive voice each of them had in the articulation of the theoretical frame of reference the scholars developed in the field of pedagogy of religion(s) and citizenship education. Or, to use the words Siebren Miedema prefers, the field of religious citizenship education. The ‘eminence grise’ in the field of Pedagogy is brought together in this volume, like John Hull, Bob Jackson and Wolfram Weisse; scholars from the United States of America like Jack Seymour and Mary Elizabeth Moore; scholars from Latin America like Günther Dietz; scholars from the Netherlands like Cok Bakker, Chris Hermans, Henk Kuindersma, Alma Lanser, Wilna Meijer, Bram de Muynck and Doret de Ruyter; scholars from Western Europe like Hans-Günther Heimbrock and Friedrich Schweitzer; scholars from Eastern Europe like Fedor Kozyrev; scholars from up North like Geir Skeie; scholars from down South like Cornelia Roux and Marian De Souza. They all responded to the question of the editor, Ina ter Avest, to reflect upon the relationship between their biography and their developed theoretical framework. For everybody interested in the field of religious citizenship education, this volume offers a thorough introduction to their theories. We hope this comprehensive book will provoke readers to balance on the edge of different perspectives and to stimulate the development of their own line of thought on religious citizenship education.

• citizenship education
• religious education

• Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Ina ter Avest

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