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Peck-McClain, Emily A. – Religious Education, 2021
United Methodist Church polity bars "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from ordination and prohibits same-sex wedding celebrations in their churches or by their clergy. Recently, the consequences for disobeying church polity have increased in severity and the denomination is expected to split. This paper profiles three churches who…
Descriptors: Protestants, Churches, Religious Education, Homosexuality
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Han, Garam – Religious Education, 2021
Through the story of Korean Bible Women and the South Korean #MeToo movement today, this paper explores how Korean women's innate creativity and imagination have challenged the patriarchal and hierarchical standpoints of the Korean Protestant church and society. Furthermore, this paper invites the Korean Protestant Church to confront the reality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Churches, Females
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Barnes, L. Philip – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2021
The aim of this article is to interact with Anita Gracie and Andrew W Brown's recent account of the historical development and nature of Controlled schools and of religious education in Northern Ireland in this journal. A complementary perspective is used to illustrate how the relationship between the Protestant churches and Controlled schools has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Religious Education, Protestants
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Garavito-Munoz, Edwin – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This paper attempts to look at the Colombian case of secularisation, touching on the current state of religion and Religious Education from three perspectives: the law, the Catholic Church, and the wider society, to determine the challenges acquired by the gap developed between religion, religiosity and secular legislation. With this in mind, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Federal Legislation, Laws
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Rich, Cynthia Holder; Ward Holder, R.; Scheopner Torres, Aubrey – Religious Education, 2022
How do race and lived experiences of this construct impact student theological understandings? We embarked on a joint pedagogical venture spanning two continents about race and theology with groups of students whose encounters with race and its impacts on theology were markedly different--including students whose lives and education have been…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Teaching Methods, Race, Racism
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Stephens, Darryl W. – Religious Education, 2013
Clergy often begin their ministerial careers unprepared to handle issues of professional power, sexuality and intimacy, and interpersonal boundaries. In response, denominational bodies and theological schools are seeking together ways to enhance the teaching of "professional sexual ethics"--referring to the integration of professional ethics,…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Ethics, Intimacy, Theological Education
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Morrison, Hugh – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2011
How late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Protestant children supported and interacted with foreign missions is still a relatively undeveloped field of scholarly research. Missionary societies actively recruited children's money, energy and sensibilities for the missionary cause. Sunday school pedagogy and rhetoric focused on cultivating a…
Descriptors: Protestants, Rhetoric, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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de la Piedra, Maria Teresa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This article discusses Quechua speakers' religious literacy practices in the native language in a rural community located in the department of Cuzco (Peru). I argue that in a situation where the school did not play the role of developing or maintaining the written vernacular, a group of community members found specific situations where they felt…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Hones, Donald F. – Religious Education, 2001
Discusses links among religion, language, and culture in a case study of a Hmong refugee, his family, and community. Argues that religious conversion facilitates the extension of literacy. Points out that before national school systems, the church was the primary site for literacy education. Documents changes the conversion brought to family…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Biblical Literature, Churches, Comparative Education