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Proceedings
2003 Meeting Papers


Embracing the Past, Envisioning the Future:
Religious Education in an Age of Transition

November 7-9, 2003
Chicago, Illinois

These papers and presentations are being given at the 2003 meeting of the Religious Education Association. The Call for Papers Committee has selected Research Interest Group and Colloquium papers based on abstracts submitted by the authors. The papers, as they exist on this site, have not been edited or fully juried by REA. The author of a paper is fully responsible for its content. All links are to "pdf" formatted files, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing.

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Baratte, Linda L.   -- Religious Education in the Prophetic Voice: The Pedagogy of Eileen Egan

Blevins, Dean  -- Virtual Publications or Virtually Publishing? The Opportunities and Challenges of On-Line Publishing in Religious Education

Crain, Margaret Ann  -- Conversation Partners for our Future: Taking Cues from the Past

Davis, Dent C. -- Encounter with God: Pedagogical Implications of the Human Experience of Spirit for Religious Education of Adults in the Church

Davis, Rebecca L.   -- Bright Hope for Tomorrow: The Bipolar Relationality of Personal and Social Transformation [diagram 1] [diagram 2] [diagram 3]

Dawson, Kathy L.  -- Christian Religious Graduate Education in the Present
(separate appendix)

D’ Souza, Mario O. , Leona M. English and  Leon Chartrand -- A 10-Year Retrospective of Religious Education: An Interfaith Journal of Spirituality, Growth, and Transformation

Elias, John L. -- Catholics in the Religious Education Association: The Early Years

Fleischer, Barbara J.  -- From Individual to Corporate Praxis:  A Systemic Re-imagining of Religious Education

Gober, Jane Alice -- Pedagogy of Play: Speaking of Adult Christian Religious Education as Play

Haitch, Russell   -- Training for Consumerism: Education as Enrichment

Isaac, Paulette -- The Future of Adult Education in the Urban African American Church

Kelly, Michael A.  -- Tradtition and Transformation

Lee, Boyung  -- Who Cares? - A Post-colonial Feminist Critique of Caring-Self and Multiculturalism

Leuze, Thomas E.  -- How Have We Reckoned with the Barthians: A Response to H. Shelton Smith

Markuly, Mark S.  -- Literacy of the Heart: Finding a Language for the Affective Dimension of Religious Education

Moran, Gabriel   -- Religious Education and International Ethics

Nolan, Lucinda  -- Seeing What Is Not There Yet:  Sophia Lyon Fahs, Entelechy and the Religious Education Association

O’Gorman, Kathleen  -- Religious Education in the 21st Century

Roebben, Bert  -- Resilient Leadership and the Search for Meaning in Young Adult Ministry

Seymour, Jack L.  -- Theology: The Clue to Religious Education?

Shallue, Diane E. -- Passing on the Faith through an Intergenerational Approach

Sinclair, Alex  -- From Practice to Theory: The Hermeneutics of Bibliodrama in the Classroom

Smith, Claire   -- God’s Neighbourhood - Where Strangers Become Friends ... and Family: A Guyanese Metaphor for Christian Education

Smith, Fred D.  -- A Pilot Study In Hope and Despair

Smith, W. Alan   -- The Lexington ‘Heresy Trial:’ William Clayton Bower and the Progressive School

Tran, Mai-Anh Le -- The Stories We Live By: Cultural and Religious Scripts in the Life Narratives of Vietnamese American Women

Webb-Mitchell, Brett --   ’Trading Spaces’, Changing Lives: Contextual Religious Education

Yust, Karen-Marie  -- The Cultivation of Spiritual Knowledge and Wisdom