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Welcome to Education About Religions and Beliefs

Welcome to the clearinghouse on Education about Religions and Beliefs!

Why are we doing this site? Participants at the AoC January 2008 Madrid Forum expressed the strong desire that the next AoC clearinghouse should be a clearinghouse on “Education about Religions and Beliefs” (ERB). Education about different religions and beliefs, and critically thinking about the nature of beliefs, enables populations to deal sensitively and tolerantly with the reality of today's globalized multicultural world where one will encounter people who believe in many different religions, or people who may not believe in any religion at all.

This site focuses on primary and secondary education about religions and beliefs – as a starting point. Material on civic education, tolerance education, ethics education, and other forms of education aimed at enabling us to learn to live together will also be featured.

This clearinghouse is meant to be useful to policy-makers, educators, and researchers in these fields. More details on this site are available in the section on Overview of Education about Religions and Beliefs as well as the Questions Bubble Section.

Please see Join Our Community to engage actively with this clearinghouse.

Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick, UK

The Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) was established in 1994, under the Directorship of Professor Robert Jackson, on the formation of the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick.

What kinds of curricula on ERB are available at this site?

Links to Recent News Articles
March 6, 2010
Martin welcomes plan to reduce Catholic schools [The Irish Times]

March 6, 2010
Abuse of Islamic women not supported by scripture [Mormon Times]

March 3, 2010
Hull parents warned over 'fundamentalist' faith school [BBC News]

March 3, 2010
Religious Teachers Seminar; Management of Religion [Radio Television Brunei]

Upcoming Events
Mar | Apr | May | Jun

CFP Deadline -- 4/30/10 for Arc Journal
2010/03/11
Arc, The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University is accepting articles for the upcoming volume, slated to appear in early Fall 2010. Deadline: April 30, 2010.

5-9/4/10: Course on teaching about Religions and Beliefs
2010/03/15
Course in Bolu, Turkey, 5-9 April, 2010, on "Teaching and Learning about Religions and Beliefs in a Human Rights Context."

Mediterranean Research Meeting
2010/03/24
Mediterranean Research Meeting, 24 to 27 March 2010.