| Contents | 8 |
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| Religious Education as Encounter. Introduction | 10 |
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| 1. Introduction | 10 |
| 2. Short Personal and Intellectual Biography of John M. Hull | 11 |
| 3. The Content of the Book | 13 |
| References | 20 |
| Religious Education as Encounter. From Body Worlds to Religious Worlds | 22 |
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| 1. Introduction | 22 |
| 2. Unconscious Passion? | 22 |
| 3. The Desire to See | 23 |
| 4. From Normality to Totality | 23 |
| 5. The Linguistic Borders of Normality | 24 |
| 6. Disability Awareness and Faith | 25 |
| 7. The Learning Curve | 26 |
| 8. How a Neurologist developed the Concept of Human Worlds | 27 |
| 9. From Body Worlds to Religious Worlds | 31 |
| 10. God as a Trans-world Reality | 33 |
| References | 33 |
| Encounter and Comparison. Complementary Perspectives for Religious Education? | 36 |
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| 1. Introduction | 36 |
| 2. Encounter and Comparison: Conceptual Analysis | 37 |
| 3. Mutual Implication of Encounter and Comparison in the Praxis of Religious Education? | 40 |
| 4. Encounter and Comparison in Research on Religious Education | 42 |
| 5. Conclusions and Perspectives for the Future | 43 |
| References | 44 |
| Educating Identity: Toward a Pedagogy of Difference | 46 |
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| 1. Introduction | 46 |
| 2. Evaluating Rational Evaluation | 47 |
| 3. Initiation into a Way of Life | 49 |
| 4. Conclusion | 52 |
| References | 53 |
| Re-thinking Religious Education in Turkish Schools in the Light of the Contribution by John M. Hull to the Turkish Experience | 54 |
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| 1. Introduction | 54 |
| 2. Justifications for Religious Education to Become a School Subject in Turkey | 56 |
| 3. Advances in Religious Education in Turkey | 60 |
| 4. Summary with Concluding Remarks | 62 |
| References | 65 |
| Encountering the Self and the Other: Black Christian Education as Inter- ethnic and Anti- racist Discourse | 66 |
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| 1. Introduction | 66 |
| 2. The Hidden Cost of Belonging in Britain | 67 |
| 3. The Pathology of Black Rage as a Response to Racialised Othering | 67 |
| 4. Dubois and Double Consciousness | 68 |
| 5. The Privileges of being White | 69 |
| 6. The Black Response to Racism in Britain | 70 |
| 7. The Importance of Inter-culturality | 72 |
| 8. White Scholars who have ‘Bucked the Trend’ | 73 |
| 9. The Role of Black Christian Education for Encountering Self and the ‘ Other’ | 74 |
| 10. Black Christian Education for Racial and Ethnic Reconciliation | 76 |
| 11. Black Christian Education Informed by Black Christology | 76 |
| Annexe: Get on the Bus | 79 |
| References | 82 |
| Encounter as Model for Dialogue in Religious Education | 84 |
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| 1. Dialogue: Fashion and Needs | 84 |
| 2. Encounter: Rhetoric and Ideal | 86 |
| 3. The Phenomenon of Encounter | 87 |
| 4. Formation: Ac-knowledgement of the Other | 90 |
| 5. Religion: The Structure of Encounter | 91 |
| 6. Encounter and Dialogue in Religious Education | 93 |
| 7. Concluding Remarks | 94 |
| References | 96 |
| The Text and Its Readings: But What About Truth? | 100 |
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| 1. Introduction | 100 |
| 2. My Introduction to Iblis | 101 |
| 3. The Human Condition | 104 |
| 4. The Tragedy of Iblis | 106 |
| 5. Questions | 108 |
| References | 109 |
| Religious Education as Encounter with Neighbour Religions | 112 |
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| 1. Introduction: Fundamental Perceptions of a Religious Dimension and Interreligious Encounters | 112 |
| 2. Encounter with Neighbour Religions | 114 |
| 3. Christianity and Neighbour-Religions: Hans Jochen Margull’s Position on Interreligious Encounter | 117 |
| 4. Impulses for the Education of Religion from the Experiences of Ecumenical Dialogue | 124 |
| References | 127 |
| Encountering ‘Good Practice’ Teacher’s Construction of School’s Identity | 130 |
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| 1. Introduction | 130 |
| 2. School Ethos in a Field of Tension | 131 |
| 3. The Biography of Teachers as a Cornerstone | 134 |
| 4. The Concept of Identity | 135 |
| 5. Structural Identity Consulation (SIC) | 137 |
| 6. An Interpretive Approach of Examples of ‘ Good Practice’ | 140 |
| 7. Encounter in Practice and in Narratives | 143 |
| 8. Encounter in Theory | 144 |
| 9. Emerging Identity in Awareness and Reflection | 146 |
| References | 147 |
| List of Authors and Editor | 150 |