Teaching and Learning the Norms of Life and Faith
edited by Catalin-Stefan Popa
Hardback (Published)
(July 2025)
ISBN: 9783161646218
6.06 x 9.09 inches
Price: $150.00
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This volume explores educational practices within the three major monotheistic religions, cultures, traditions, and languages. Through case studies, the contributors illustrate how Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions shaped educational ideals, fostered scholarly communities, and guided students through structured curricula. They examine the role of literate elites in transmitting classical knowledge and patristic authority, and how pedagogical legacies contributed to spiritual development and responded to social and religious crises. Aimed at scholars of history, religion, and humanities, students and general readers, this collection of essays offers valuable insights into the enduring and evolving nature of pedagogical values across diverse historical contexts, and features profiles of influential educators such as rabbis, church fathers, exegetes, mystics, jurists, and polymaths.
- Edited by Catalin-Stefan Popa
Other Titles in this Series
Islamic Ethics as Educational Discourse
Thought and Impact of the Classical Muslim Thinker Miskawayh (d. 1030)
Volume 14
Briefliches Zitieren bei Paulus und Cicero
Eine vergleichende Untersuchung zu den Korintherbriefen
Volume 15
Die Mose-Exodus-Tradition in den Korintherbriefen
Schriftrezeption und -verarbeitung 'zwischen den Welten'
Volume 20
Hermeneutik(en) der Weisheit von der hebräischen Bibel bis in die islamische Zeit
Religionshistorische Beiträge zum Wandel von Weisheit und ihr Potenzial für praktisch-theologische Diskurse der Gegenwart
Lehrreiche Literatur
Die didaktische Gestaltung von Plutarchs Quaestiones Graecae und Romanae und Gellius' Noctes Atticae
Das Paradies ist ein Horsaal fur die Seelen
Institutionen religioser Bildung in historischer Perspektive
Volume 1
Fruhchristliche Stoarezeption
Zur Rezeption einer philosophischen Schule in den apologetischen und antiharetischen Schriften des 2. und fruhen 3. Jahrhunderts
Volume 21
Libraries, Handbooks, Encyclopedias
Ancient and Early Medieval Repositories of Knowledge and Their Religious Aspects
Volume 22
Das arabisch-islamische Unterrichtswesen der klassischen Periode
Thematik und inhaltliche Strukturierung von Diktatkollegs des 9. – 12. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.
Christianisierung des Habitus
Die Predigten des Caesarius von Arles als religiose Bildungsprozesse
Volume 23
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