Understanding Religion and Religious Understanding

Summary

After discussing the nature of understanding and the means by which it is acquired, this paper suggests that religion is understood differently by a person with experience of religious commitment from the way it is understood by a detached observer. It proceeds to examine which type of understanding should be the objective of religious education.

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Edwin Cox

Edwin Cox is Reader in Education at London University. His latest book Problems and Possibilities for Religious Education has been published by Messrs Hodder and Stoughton.