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Beaudoin, Tom – Religious Education, 2003
Religious education takes place within a postmodern culturalintellectual milieu exemplified in part by the work of Michel Foucault, which disrupts common modern concepts of knowledge and power. For Foucault, power is not only repressive but also productive, insofar as every system of knowledge depends on social arrangements of power for the…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Postmodernism, Philosophy, Power Structure