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Welcome to Education About Religions and Beliefs

Welcome to the clearinghouse on Education about Religions and Beliefs!

Why are we doing this site? Participants at the AoC January 2008 Madrid Forum expressed the strong desire that the next AoC clearinghouse should be a clearinghouse on “Education about Religions and Beliefs” (ERB). Education about different religions and beliefs, and critically thinking about the nature of beliefs, enables populations to deal sensitively and tolerantly with the reality of today's globalized multicultural world where one will encounter people who believe in many different religions, or people who may not believe in any religion at all.

This site focuses on primary and secondary education about religions and beliefs – as a starting point. Material on civic education, tolerance education, ethics education, and other forms of education aimed at enabling us to learn to live together will also be featured.

This clearinghouse is meant to be useful to policy-makers, educators, and researchers in these fields. More details on this site are available in the section on Overview of Education about Religions and Beliefs as well as the Questions Bubble Section.

Please see Join Our Community to engage actively with this clearinghouse.

Center for the Study of World Religion, Dharmaram College, India
Dharmaram College
India

The specific orientations of the Center for the Study of World Religion (CSWR) are the promotion of interreligious understanding and the spirit of dialogue among the followers of various religions, in-depth research on interreligious topics, conducti

What kinds of curricula on ERB are available at this site?

Links to Recent News Articles
February 1, 2010
Teachers should be tolerant towards religious minorities [Daily Times]

February 1, 2010
Alevi workshop submits roadmap to government [Today’s Zaman]

January 29, 2010
Primary schools should teach about Zoroastrianism and Jainism in RE [Telegraph.co.uk]

January 28, 2010
Why Jewish families choose other faith schools [The Jewish Chronicle]

Upcoming Events
Feb | Mar | Apr | May

CFP 2/10/10: Internet and Religion
2010/02/01
Call for Papers for Special Issue of Information, Communication & Society on Religion and the Internet: The Online-Offline Connection. This special issue of Information, Communication and Society considers what we think we know about the relatio

"Mediation of Meaning" Colloqium Deadline: March 1, 2010
2010/02/01
Applications are invited for the "Mediation of Meaning" Colloqium. Spend the month of July in New York working on a research or writing project of your choice with access to libraries and research facilities at Columbia University, Union, Auburn

CFP: Buddhism and Globalization
2010/02/15
The Department of Buddhist Studies at the University of Delhi, Delhi( India), is organizing an international Seminar 17-19 February, 2010, on the theme of “BUDDHISM AND GLOBALIZATION”. This seminar aims to convene a broad range of academic res