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Berryman, Jerome:
“Talking Theodicy With Children Without Arresting Their Theological
Thinking”
Braga, Reginaldo:
“Toward a Pedagogy of Grace:
Multiculturalism as opportunity for
Vital Encounters and Transformation”
Court, Deborah:
“Educational Ethnography as Cultural
and Religious Mirror”
Dawson, Kathy:
“Should Church-Housed Schools Be
Christian?”
Elias, John:
“Intercultural Education and
Religious Education: An Historical
Perspective”
English, Leona:
“Revisiting Voice, Subjectivity and
Circles: Feminist Pedagogy in the
21st Century”
Gilmour, Peter:
“The Presentation and Function of
Culture in the Newest Jesus Film:
Son of Man”
Goto, Courtney:
“Pretending to Be Japanese: Artistic
Play in a Japanese-American Church
and Family”
Harden, Colleen:
“Case Studies in Faith Development:
Cross-cultural Analysis: Russia
2007”
Hearn, Mark C:
“Colorblind Racism:
Colorblind Theology and Church
Practices”
Hearn, Mark C., Jon Hooten, Ann
Carter Walker, and Jina Kim:
“’Homework Is an Offering to God’: A
Participatory Research Study on
Religious Community and Its Effect
Upon Hispanic Educational Success”
Heekin, Ann Morrow:
“Touching the
You: A Transformative Approach to
Jews and Christians in
Dialogue—Learning in the Presence of
the Other”
Hinton, Mary:
“Saying Grace: Praying
Over the Loss of African-American
Religious and Food Culture (and How
They Are Related)”
Horan, Michael:
“Searching Our
Souls: Religious Education and the
Loss of Catholic Culture”
Huntly, Allison:
“The Faith
Community as Safe Space for
Adolescent Girls from Different
Backgrounds”
Hwang, Byung-June:
“Multicultural
Parental Involvement: A Case Study”
Iannone, Mercedes and MaryAnn Barth:
“Seeking the God of the Deaf: A
Deaf/Hearing Dialogue”
Lee, Boyung:
"Toward Liberating Interdependence:
A Postcolonial Intercultural
Pedagogy"
Lee, Michael:
“’Shaping Community’
as a Christian Practice and Popular
Religion: their Implications for
Latino/a Religious Education in the
United States”
Mahan, Brian:
“How Cultural Identity
Affects Teaching Religious
education: An Irish-American
Perspective”
Miedema, Siebren and Bert H.M.
Roebben:
“Culture and Tradition: Two
Contested Concepts in Religious
Education”
Mitchell, Gordon:
“Sacred Text as a
Platform for Interreligious
Dialogue”
Mustafeh, Intisar:
“Islam in the
Curriculum in Jordan and England: A
Comparative Study”
Nolan, Lucinda:
“Men of Good Will:
J. Elliot Ross and the National
Conference of Jews and Christians”
Okamura, Naoki:
“Intercultural
Encounters as Religious Education: A
Phenomenological Study on a Group of
Japanese Students at a Christian
University in California”
O’Keefe, Theresa:
“The Same But
Different: The Culture in Which Our
Adolescents Live”
Ospino, Hosfmann:
“Foundations for
an Intercultural Philosophy of
Christian Education”
Ozele, Anthony M.
“Cultural
Paternalism and the Challenges of
Educating Nigerian Women”
Parachin, Janet:
“Camps, Choirs, and
Conversation: Peace Education for
Palestinian and Israeli Children and
Youth”
Parmach, Robert:
“A Hospitable
Environment: Teaching the Sexually
Intelligent Conversation”
Robertson, Ian:
“Ephphata: Be
Opened’: the Sacred Narratives of
Deaf People—Cross Cultural
Opportunities in Religious Education
and Praxis”
Rowland, Michael L. and E. Paulette
Isaac:
“Pulpit Practices: Enhancing
Adult Learning”
Smith, Yolanda:
“A Spirituality of
Teaching: Black Women’s Spirituality
and Christian Education”
Ter Avest, Ina and Cok Bakker:
“Structural Identity Consultation:
Story Telling as a Culture of Faith
Transformation”
Turpin, Katherine:
“Well-to-Do,
Down-to-Earth, or
Struggling-to-Make-Ends-Meet: The
Unmentionable Cultures of Social
Class and Religious Education”
Wiltse, Vicki:
“Personal Development
and Adults’ Participation in
Dialogue”