Religious education in pre-modern Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler and Marvin Döbler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tanaseanu-Döbler, Ilinca.

Döbler, Marvin.

Series:

Numen Book Series 140.

Numen book series, 0169-8834 ; v. 140

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious education--Europe.

Religious education.

Education--Europe.

Education.

Europe--Religious life and customs.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although religious education is a much-debated topic in present-day History of Religions, its study focuses almost exclusively on contemporary phenomena. Furthermore, this field of study still lacks a comprehensive theoretical framework to structure research. The volume presented here explores religious education from a historical perspective, focusing on source material from pre-modern Europe. Scholars from the History of Religions, Theology, Classical Philology, Medieval Studies and Byzantine Studies contribute their expertise to analyse selected aspects of religious education in Antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages, highlighting the diverse concepts of education, educational contents, actors, media, methods, ideals and intentions at play, and anchoring their case studies in the broader panorama of European history. Based on this material, the editors propose a systematic framework to map the research field.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Towards a Theoretical Frame for the Study of Religious Education: An Introduction / Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler and Marvin Döbler

Religious Education in Classical Greece / Christoph Auffarth

Etrusca Disciplina: How Was It Possible to Learn about Etruscan Religion in Ancient Rome? / Charles Guittard

Before the Teachers of Israel and the Sages of Greece: Luke-Acts as a Precursor of the Conjunction of Biblical Faith and Hellenistic Education / Reinhard Feldmeier

Religious Education in Late Antique Paganism / Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler

From a Way of Reading to a Way of Life: Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus about Poetry in Christian Education / Andreas Schwab

Locating Young Students in Byzantine Churches: A Chapter on Primary and Secondary Religious Education in Byzantium / Nikos Kalogeras

Formation for Wisdom, Not Education for Knowledge / E. Rozanne Elder

Bernard of Clairvaux and Religious Education: An Approach from the Perspective of the History of Religions / Marvin Döbler

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-283-63481-3

90-04-23214-1

OCLC:

812342853

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004232143 DOI