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unusual facts about religious education


Religious education

In Israel, children receiving a traditional Jewish education are taught Biblical Hebrew, and learn excerpts of the Torah (first five books of the Bible) and the Talmud (commentary on the scriptures).


Columba Catholic College

The Primary Curriculum at Columba Catholic College is designed to emphasise the basic skills of numeracy and literacy, whilst integrating the Key Learning Areas (KLA's) of Religious Education , English, Maths, Science, Studies of Society and Environment, Languages other than English (LOTE), Health and Physical Education, The Arts and Technology.

Harriet Owen

She now teaches religious education at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Surrey, and is married to Andrew Suenson-Taylor.

John M. Quinn

He also served as the archdiocesan director for justice and peace and for education (1990–2003), and Cardinal Adam Maida's delegate to his alma mater of Sacred Heart Seminary (where he was an adjunct member of the faculty).

Józef Stala

After studies at the Warsaw Theological Academy (now: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw he earned at May 15, 1995 the Licentiate, at June 8, 1998 the Doctorate and in 2005 the Habilitation with his book: "Katecheza o małżeństwie i rodzinie w Polsce po Soborze Watykańskim II." (Religious education in the Families in Poland after the Second Vatican Council) at the Pontifical University of John Paul II.


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Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies

Degrees awarded by the Department of Education are Master of Arts in Education (M.A.) with emphases in Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Administration, Instructional Technology, Leadership, Library Administration, Religious Education, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL; Master of Arts (M.A.) in Teaching, Education Specialist (EdS), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Education, with emphases in Curriculum & Instruction and Educational Administration.

Ave Maria Convent Branch School

Obtained the Master Degree on Religious Education at the University of “ Regina Mundi” in Rome, Italy.

B. V. S. Parsi High School

The Zoroastrian residents of Karachi, feeling the need for imparting religious education and knowledge of Gujarati, opened on 23 May 1859, “The Parsi Balakshala,” or children’s school.

Britannia United Church

In 1946, Trail Rangers, a club for boys 12 to 14; TUXIS a club for boys 15 to 19 and Canadian Girls in Training were founded at the Britannia United Church under the leadership of Rev Gordon F. Dangerfield, minister of the Britannia-Bell's Corner's-Fallowfield, who had been active in the field of religious education.

Charles Coil

He received a Bachelor's degree from Harding University and a Master's of Religious Education from the Harding University Graduate School of Religion.

Christopher Herbert

From 1971–76 he was Adviser in Religious Education, and from 1976–81 Director of Education, for the Diocese of Hereford.

Croatian Province of the Society of Jesus

The Province also maintains residences in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ohrid, Macedonia where they provide religious education to seminarians in the local dioceses.

Dov Yosef

After the government collapsed again over the issue of religious education in December 1952, Yosef was initially appointed Minister without Portfolio in the new government, before switching to the Development Ministry in June 1953.

Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C.

IFFP meets most Sundays during the school year at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, Maryland, providing dual-faith religious education for over 150 children through a Sunday School for pre-school through eighth grade, a "Coming of Age" program for 7th and 8th graders, and a teen group.

Joseph William Tobin

he obtained a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Holy Redeemer College, Waterford, Wisconsin in 1977 and, in 1979, a Master's in Religious Education and the Master of Divinity (Pastoral Theology) at the Mount St. Alphonsus Seminary in Esopus, New York.

Kuniyoshi Obara

Influenced by Plato, Erasmus and Swiss education reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, this philosophy promoted a balanced and individualized approach to the development of the student in the six aspects of truth (veritas; academic ideals), goodness (bonum; moral education), beauty (pulchritudo; art education), holiness (sanctitas; religious education), health (sanitas; physical education) and wealth (copia; vocational education).

Namwianga Mission

Namwianga also contains the George Benson Christian College, which trains secondary teachers in the areas of Math-Religious Education or English-Religious Education, and many graduates go on to plant churches around Zambia.

Naval Station Everett

The Navy acquired the 52 acre (210,000 m²) site to build a commissary, exchange, family service center, thrift shop, education offices, Bachelor Officer Quarters, craft shop/gear issue, chapel and religious education center, an auto hobby shop, ball fields and courts, fleet parking for personnel assigned to deployed Everett-based ships and a 50-room Navy Lodge.

Orthodox Judaism

Notable examples include acceptance of rules permitting farming during the Shmita year and permitting the advanced religious education of women.

Patrick Fahey

He subsequently lectured in Liturgical and Sacramental Theology at the Catholic Theology and Religious Education at the Australian Catholic University (N.S.W.).

Said Afandi al-Chirkawi

He served in the Soviet Army and worked as a firefighter at Chirkey Dam before beginning his religious education at the age of 32.

School of Ministry

Graduate students can pursue Masters degrees in: Theological Studies (MTS), Religious Education (MRE), Catholic School Leadership (MCSL), Catholic School Teaching (MCST), and Pastoral Ministry (MPM).

The University of Dallas School of Ministry began in 1987 as the Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies (IRPS), offering masters degrees in theological studies (MTS) and religious education (MRE).

Tarring and feathering

In 1851 a Know-Nothing mob in Ellsworth, Maine, USA, tarred and feathered a Swiss-born Jesuit priest, Father John Bapst, in the midst of a local controversy over religious education in grammar schools.

Terry Ball

Terry B. Ball, dean of religious education at Brigham Young University

Toi Derricotte

During her years at Detroit's Girls Catholic Central High School, Derricotte recounts a religious education that she felt was steeped in images of death and punishment, a Catholicism that, according to the poet, morbidly paraded "the crucifixion, saints, martyrs in the Old Testament and the prayers of the Mass."

Vashti McCollum

Vashti Cromwell McCollum (November 6, 1912 – August 20, 2006) was the plaintiff in a landmark 1948 Supreme Court case that struck down religious education in the public schools.

WRE

Weekday Religious Education, a program of religious education in some American public schools

Yugo, Baltistan

The village is also known for a high number of scholars who to have studied Islamic religious education in the Islamic University of Madinah.