Religious Education Between Modernization and Globalization New Perspectives on the United States and Germany

includes index and biblioraphy

I. The Promise and Problems of Contemporary Religious Education 1. Protestant Religious Education in Context:The Need for Historical and Comparative Perspectives 2. Modernization, Globalization, and Postmodernism: Toward an Analytical and Cross-Disciplinary Framework II. Paradigmatic Figures and Texts in Twentieth-Century Protestant Religious Education INTRODUCTION TO PART II 3. Facing Up to Modernity: Religious Education Reform Movements in the Early Twentieth Century 4. Modernity Reconsidered: The Reaffirmation of TheologicalIdentity in Protestant Religious Education after 1945 5. Beyond Modernity? Protestant Religious Education after the 19605 III. The Challenges of Protestant Religious Education in the Twenty-First Century INTRODUCTION TO PART III 6. Christianity`s Contribution to Paideia and to Society 7. Congregational Education and the Challenge of Cross-Disciplinary Thinking 8. The Religious Dimension of the Self 9. The Family: The Rhetoric of Practical Theology and the Engagement of Audience