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Publication Date: 2017
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How We Get Somewhere Religiously: Religious Education and Deconversion
Religious Education, v112 n3 p255-263 2017
Engaging the work of Robert Kegan, Mary C. Boys, and John Caputo, this article explores whether disaffiliation, or more accurately deconversion, might be one possible outcome of successful religious education forming a mature religious consciousness for postmodernity's changing religious landscape. Through a presentation of deconversion literature alongside a trialogue of these developmental, philosophical, and religious educational theories, the article critically and experimentally constructs a religious educational discourse for the changing space we find ourselves in, and suggests deconversion research offers significant theological and practical material for reflection on how we might be getting somewhere religiously.
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Education, Educational Theories, Social Change, Educational Research, Outcomes of Education, Biblical Literature, Cultural Pluralism, World Views, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews, Learning Processes, Christianity, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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