TY - BOOK AU - Antone,Hope S. TI - Religious education in context of plurality and pluralism SN - 9711010917 AV - FIL BV1470 .A78 A58 2003 U1 - FIL 268 PY - 2003/// CY - Quezon City PB - New Day Publishers KW - Religious education KW - Asia KW - Christian education KW - Religious pluralism N1 - Jointly publish with Christian Conference of Asia; Includes bibliographical references; Contents; How context shapes education theory--The Asian context--A plural context shapes education theory--Assumptions about contextual education theory--Shifts in education theory--Jewish roots of Christian--Christ's way of education--Recent expressions of religious education?--Religious education as a field--Religious education: a must for Asia--Theological and educational approaches to plurality--Human responses to diversity--Christian approaches to other religions--Asia's legacy: strong missionary inheritance--Rethinking the theology of mission--Rethinking religious education--Biblical support for religious pluralism--problems in using biblical support--Plurality and the world of the Bible--Jesus in relation to other--Discourses in reading the Bible--Cultural bases for religious pluralism--Metaphor of dialogue--Metaphor of mealtable sharing--Asian cultural practices of mealtable sharing--Parallels with biblical mealtable practices--Christian practices of meal table sharing--Mealtable sharing and religious education--The preparation--The content--The enablers--The methodology--Towards contextual theories of religious education--Function of the metaphor--Dysfunction of the metaphor--Towards more contextual theories ER -