Textbook Gods: Genre, Text and Teaching Religious Studies - Hardcover

Bengt-Ove Andreassen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178179054X ISBN 13: 9781781790540

Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in textbooks, partly because they have maintained their position as an important genre. Not too many years ago - and perhaps currently as well - many considered textbooks outdated or archaic compared with technological advances such as the Internet and different kinds of educational software. Despite these changes, textbooks for school subjects and for academic studies continue to be in demand. Textbooks seem to constitute a genre in which established truths are conveyed, and may thus represent stable forces in a world of flux and rapid changes. Textbook Gods offers perspectives on representations of religion and religions in textbooks. The contributions emerge from different contexts, ranging from European countries, to North America, Japan and Australia.

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About the Author

Bengt-Ove Andreassen is Associated Professor at the Department of Education at University of Tromso. He is also guest scholar in religious studies at University of Bergen during 2011-2013. One of his areas for research is religion in education and how perspectives from the academic study of religion can be applied to develop education about religion in public schools. James R. Lewis is Professor at the University of Tromsø. His most recent books include Sacred Schisms (edited with Sarah Lewis, Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Children of Jesus and Mary (with Nicolas Levine, Oxford University Press, 2010). He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178179054X
• ISBN 13: 9781781790540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Bengt-Ove Andreassen, James R. Lewis