Routledge Research in Religion and Education
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Religion and Education series aims at advancing public understanding and dialogue on issues at the intersections of religion and education. These issues emerge in various venues and proposals are invited from work in any such arena: public or private education at elementary, secondary, or higher education institutions; non-school or community organizations and settings; and formal or informal organizations or groups with religion or spirituality as an integral part of their work. Book proposals are invited from diverse methodological approaches and theoretical and ideological perspectives. This series does not address the work of formal religious institutions including churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples. Rather, it focuses on the beliefs and values arising from all traditions as they come into contact with educational work in the public square.
Please send proposals to Mike Waggoner ([email protected]) and Kirsty Murray ([email protected]).
Christian Higher Education in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor, the Humanities, and Faith-Based Education
1st Edition
Edited
By A. J. Demoskoff, Matthew Zantingh
June 03, 2026
At the heart of this collection of essays is a central question: how can humanistic education in faith-based institutions contribute to human flourishing within secular societies? This book explores the implications of Charles Taylor’s analysis of secularity for the work of humanities education in ...
State Funding for Teaching about Religion: International Perspectives on State Aid for Schools with a Religious Character
1st Edition
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By Charles J. Russo
October 31, 2025
This book enhances awareness of the legal issues surrounding public funding of faith-based schools in representative nations around the world. In this edited volume, contributors explore whether tax monies should support religious institutions in advancing their beliefs, and if such support ...
Ethnicity, Religion, and Muslim Education in a Changing World: Navigating Contemporary Perspectives on Multicultural Schooling in the UK
1st Edition
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By Karamat Iqbal, Tahir Abbas
September 29, 2025
This novel and contemporary anthology brings important topics about race, religion, and identity to the foreground to address the challenges facing Muslim schoolchildren today. Through interviews and case studies, the chapters explore topics such as multiethnic education, teacher diversity, and ...
Queer Thriving in Religious Schools: Encountering Religious Texts, Values, and Rituals
1st Edition
By Seán Henry
August 29, 2025
This book offers an account of religious schooling committed to ‘queer-thriving’ and envisions how queer staff and students can live their lives without being ‘accommodated’ within heteronormative religious traditions. Engaging with queer theological perspectives across the Jewish, Christian, and ...
Religions, Beliefs and Education in the European Court of Human Rights: Investigating Judicial Pedagogies
1st Edition
By Nigel Fancourt
June 27, 2025
This book represents an exposition of ‘judicial pedagogies’ as a new concept, and discusses juridical-educational issues in detail, through an analysis of the educational claims and assumptions of judges’ decisions in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It sheds light on how, within ...
Exploring Catholic Faith in Shakespearean Drama: Towards a Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
By David Torevell, Brandon Schneeberger, Luke Taylor
March 30, 2025
This pioneering study investigates the connection between Shakespeare and Catholic education. Its authors contend that Shakespeare’s plays explore Catholic understandings of human life in ways that remain relevant for Catholic educational institutions today. Through chapters focusing on ethical and...
Religious Literacies in Educational Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Kate E. Soules
March 26, 2025
Religious Literacies in Educational Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides an overview of current scholarship on religious literacy and its practical applications in public life. As an emerging, interdisciplinary field, religious literacy is vital in understanding how diverse religious ...
Religion and Worldviews in Education: The New Watershed
1st Edition
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By Liam Gearon, Arniika Kuusisto, Saila Poulter, Auli Toom, Martin Ubani
November 29, 2024
This timely book offers a critically important contribution to debates around the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews in education. Edited by five leading figures in the field, and drawing on expert international scholarship and research, the book provides cutting-edge analysis that ...
Principles of Zen Training for Educational Settings: Pedagogical Insights, the Kwan Um School of Zen, and Transnational Korean Buddhism
1st Edition
By Hugh Schuckman
October 31, 2024
This book provides insights into new developments and persistent traditions in Zen teacher training and education through the use of historical archival research and original interviews with living Zen Masters. It argues that some contemporary Euro-American social values of gender equality, ...
Religion in Education: Innovation in International Research
1st Edition
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By Joyce Miller, Kevin O'Grady, Ursula McKenna
October 14, 2024
This volume explores numerous themes (including the influence of ethnography on religious education research and pedagogy, the interpretive approach to religious education, the relationship between research and classroom practice in religious education), providing a critique of contemporary ...
Inclusion and Sexuality in Catholic Higher Education: Possibilities for Institutional Change
1st Edition
By Mark A. Levand
October 09, 2024
Drawing on research conducted at 17 Catholic universities in the United States, making it the largest study of its kind, this volume explores effective practice in improving institutional policy relating to issues of sexuality. The text calls attention to campus cultures of fear, shame, or denial ...
Conceptualising Religion and Worldviews for the School: Opportunities, Challenges, and Complexities of a Transition from Religious Education in England and Beyond
1st Edition
By Kevin O'Grady
January 29, 2024
This timely volume addresses current debates surrounding the transition from the teaching of religious education (RE) to the more holistic subject of Religion and Worldviews (R&W) in England, and posits criteria for best practice among educators in varied settings and in a broader international...