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Religious Education Debate: Among other activities, the religious education debate Education Association organizes seminars, round tables, and workshops and holds occasional national conventions: (1) to discuss the theories, philosophy, and methods of religious education debate and character education; (2) to consider ways of enhancing the adequacy and quality of religion in American education through schools, colleges, churches, synagogues, and other agencies; (3) to help leaders of religious education debate and character education to become aware of the findings of research in the pedagogy, psychology, and sociology of religion, theology, and other disciplines, as it bears on religious education debate and character formation ; (4) to stimulate research and experimentation in the entire field of religious education debate and character education.
There are, however, still substantially unanswered questions in this sensitive and complex area of human experience.
If there is little more to say in terms of the nature of spiritual experience, than has already been said in the discussion papers mentioned above, it would be superfluous to add another Blind person's contribution to the 'elephant debate'. What I would like to do in this chapter is present some key questions and, from the perspective of these, to evaluate certain points raised in these discussions. Having offered such an evaluation it may be possible to re-visit the objectives that 'spiritual' and religious education debate education in this context are designed to meet and make suggestions for the development of the agenda in terms of the continuing debate.
In medieval Europe, citizenship education was tied closely to the church and to religious education debate education, a characteristic that has persisted. In some Protestant areas of Germany, for example, Lutheran influence is reflected in provisions for religious education debate instruction. In Spain and in Italy the state and the Catholic church have been partners in education for centuries. Such religious influence in public education has declined, however, in a number of countries.
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