With ambitious but accessible arguments, this Oxford Handbook furthers a thesis that the interface of religion and education is not merely a matter of disputation about a domain of ancient origin or a rudimentary matter of formal educational process, but a vibrant domain of contestation fundamental to understanding and living in the modern world.

Linda Woodhead MBE DD FAcSS: Foreword Liam Francis Gearon and Arniika Kuusisto: Introduction Part I: Religion and Education: Conceptual and Contextual Framings 1: Liam Francis Gearon: Enlightenment's Empire and Apocalyptic Modernity: Religion and Education Revisited 2: Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy: Political Secularism and the Governance of Religious Diversity 3: Julian Stern: Religion and Education: Pedagogical Imperatives 4: Szilvi Watson: Strength, Struggle and Support: Christian Postgraduate Students' Experiences at a Traditional Elite University in England Part II: Researching Religion and Education: Theoretical Frameworks 5: Ted Newell: Theological Approaches to Religion and Education 6: David Lewin: Philosophical Approaches to Religion and Education 7: Alister E. McGrath: Natural Science Approaches to Religion and Education 8: Katheryn Kelley and Daniel Lapsley: Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Education 9: Terhi Utriainen, Helena Kupari, Linda Annunen, and Maija Butters: Adult Religious Learning: Vernacular and Ethnographic Approaches 10: Simon Coleman and Nicholas Howe Bukowski: Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion and Education 11: Richard Viladesau: Arts and Aesthetic Approaches to Religion and Education Part III: Religious Tradition and Education 12: Patricia Kieran: Religion and Education from Catholic Perspectives 13: Henrik Simojoki: Religion and Education from Protestant Christian Perspectives 14: Isaac Calvert: 1. Religion and Education from Jewish Perspectives: Pedagogic Prescriptions from the Babylonian TalmudDLBetween Orthodoxy and Flexibility 15: Tuomas Martikainen and Arniika Kuusisto: Islam, Education, and Muslim Diversity 16: Gavin Flood: Religion and Education from Hindu Perspectives 17: Wolfram Weisse: Interreligious Dialogue in Theology and Religious Education Part IV: Religion and Education in Comparative International Context 18: Myriam Radhouane and Abdeljalil Akkari: Comparative International Research on Religion and Education: The Council of Europe 19: Silvio Ferrari: Religion and Education in the European Union Countries: A Comparative Analysis of National Legal Systems 20: Jenny Berglund: The Study of Islamic Education in Europe: The Value of Cmparative Studies 21: Liam Francis Gearon: Religion, Education and Cultural Materiality: UNESCO World Heritage Sites 22: Alexandra Blinkova and Paul Vermeer: Religion and Education in Russia 23: Liam Francis Gearon and Arniika Kuusisto: Freedom of Religion and Belief in Finnish Education 24: Michael D. Waggoner, W. Y. Alice Chan, and Margaretta Patrick: Religion and Education in the United States and Canada 25: Ratna Ghosh and Ali A. Abdi: Education and Religion in Colonial/Postcolonial Contexts: The Case of Indigenous Canada 26: Zehavit Gross: Religion and Education in Israel: Ideological Orientations of State Religious Education 27: Amy Stambach and Aikande C. Kwayu: Religion and Education in East Africa 28: Abdeljalil Akkari and Myriam Radhouane: Schooling and Religion in North and West Africa in Comparative Perspective 29: Yonah Matemba: 1. Africa South of the Sahara: An Anticolonial Framework for Religion and Education 30: Satoko Fujiwara: Religion and Education in China and Japan 31: Terence Lovat: Religion and Education in Australasia and the South-Pacific Part V: Religion, Education, and Learning: Practitioner-Professional Research 32: Martin Ubani: Discussing Religious Literacy, the 'Religious' and (Inter-) Disciplinarity 33: Helena Stockinger: Religious Diversity in Early Childhood Education 34: Ellinor Skaremyr, Magdalena Raivio, and Arniika Kuusisto: Caring for the Whole Child in Preschool Education: Repositioning 'Religion' in Socially Sustainable Educational Professionalism 35: Saila Poulter and Arto Kallioniemi: Searching for the 'Educational' in Religious and Worldview Education: Contextual Reflections from Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care 36: Ednan Aslan: Islam and Education in Austria Part VI: Critical Global Challenges for Religion and Education 37: Manfred Pirner: Religion, Education, and Public Theology 38: Ratna Ghosh: Religion, Education, and Extremism 39: Roger S. Gottlieb: Religious Education and the Environmental Crisis: Moral, Spiritual, and Political Questions 40: Birte Platow: Religion and the Technology of Digitization in Education 41: Liam Francis Gearon: Religion, Education, and Postcolonial Theory: Decolonising the Curriculum Reconsidered

Liam Francis Gearon is Associate Professor in Religious Education in the Department of Education and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. He is also Conjoint Professor at Newcastle University, Australia; Visiting Professor at the Irish Centre for Catholic Studies, MIC, Limerick, Ireland; Extraordinary Professor North-West University, South Africa; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. Arniika Kuusisto is Professor (Early Childhood Education), Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK. She is the editor of The Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education.

Offers a multi-disciplinary work of scholarship and research highlighting the global significance of a critical interface of cultural and social, political, and theological importance. Draws on historical perspective and contemporary reflection to provide a uniquely transformative analysis of why the interface of religion and education is of such critical significance. Presents a cumulatively powerful argument to reassess the complexities of the intersection of religion and education, advanced by some of the leading thinkers in the field.