Descriptive and evaluative annotations of more than 1,000 books and articles in religious education and related fields are featured in this guide. Since religious education draws necessary guidance from other disciplines, pertinent literature is canvassed from theology, philosophy, and history of education; behavioral studies of religion and education; and multidisciplinary treatments. Special care has been taken to include materials that represent the interfaith and international aspects of the field. A bibliographical essay that interprets and evaluates positions and trends is included in each category. A resource for scholars, students, historians, and researchers.

Educational theory is explored as it has influenced and provided insights for religious education. The vast literature in the theory and practice of religious education is dealt with in several categories. The section on theory explores basic issues, important positions, and major figures. The section on administration deals with planning, organization, management, and supervision. Program, curriculum, and method are considered together because they so often overlap in the literature. Since religion is a persistent concern in schools and in institutions of higher education, special sections are devoted to the issues involved and the proposals put forward. A final section covers reference works.

Step beyond the walls of the church and into the thick of humanity.

"Joan Brown Campbell's career can be regarded as prophetic. For Joan, faith has meant engagement with the world and its pain. Her words remind us that at its best, religion should not narrow our horizons, but enable us to live more fully; should not cause us to withdraw from the world, but to do our utmost to make it a better place." from the Foreword by Karen Armstrong

Drawing on her amazing life experiences, Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell speaks out on the pressing issues that face us today: love, justice, reconciliation, forgiveness and community. With a bold, distinctive voice, this visionary minister asserts that we have the capacity to transcend the barriers that separate us from one another. She poses that "Who is my neighbor?" may be the most crucial question in our world where so many are hungry and hurting and weary of war. She calls us to live life fully not carefully or cautiously, but wholly engaged with the world and with the messiness of humanity. She dares us to act as the people we are called and created to be to claim our freedom to care, to risk and to step out into the unknown.

Capturing the essence of her wisdom gained from years of world travel and experience, Campbell offers inspiration and challenge for all who would claim their lives as people of hope."

Why are pigs fighting gerbils? The answer was provided by four grandchildren ages 6-12 in a family project. Pigs left alone on an isolated farm are forced to organize to protect against hungry gerbils. They gain secret allies in the "Farmer Island War." The respect and pride among the pig soldiers as they bravely face increasing danger is heartwarming, and they ultimately learn their compassion is stronger than anger.

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Maryanne D. Brown Campbell, poet and playwright, and author of Serpentine Tongue, a book of 11 books of poetry, plays, collages and sketches, is an ambassador and activist for the upliftment of African American women through literature and the African American community. Her works encompass the concepts of black history, the perils of love, spirituality, sexuality, and so much more. Food for the Soul, is not just a comprehensive soul food cookbook, but it offers food for the black / African American woman's soul. In a society that undermines the beauty and intelligence, and perhaps the existence of black women, under the guise of Don Imas' quote, "nappy, headed ho's," as well as the portrayals of black women in rap and hip hop videos, to say the least, this book not only offers recipes, but statistics, articles, history and advice for black women in lieu of their relationships or lack thereof, stereotypes, emotional intelligence, and what black men both love and hate about black women, and vice versa, for black men; last but certainly not least, she offers poetry. She seeks to enlighten the spirits within all black women, and replenish what has been lost through each of their experiences -past and present, in order for their futures to be brighter. Her up and coming works include: Word Masturbation, the poet's guide to love, sex and relationships.

In the summer of 1819 Alexander Campbell and his family left Highland County, Virginia, on a trek to the wilderness country of Missouri Territory. This is his actual diary of the trip to and from Missouri three years apart, during which time the Campbells suffered great privation and saw much of the lower Midwest and upper South. Complete with index, map, and detailed background notes by scholars Mary Wickizer Burgess and Michael Burgess.

Serpentine Tongue is a composite of 11 of Maryanne D. Brown Campbell's earlier works, featuring poems, plays, collages and pencil sketches of her visions, and artistry. She presents the trials and tribulations, the life experiences, and notions of a young African-American woman in love, in pain, in anger and in question of life. She makes a heart wrenching and everlasting impression of what it is to be a woman and a minority in this account, which can serve as her diary. Each of her 11 books is inspired by and written for people with great significance in her life, as is outlined on her dedication page. This work consists of 8 books of poetry, 2 plays and a spoken word poem. The subject matter ranges from spirituality, the perils of love, sex, veneration and commemoration, abuse, humor, enigma, addiction, lesbianism, and beauty, to HIV, poverty, growth, slavery, relationships, and adversity and the list goes on. In this account the author isn't afraid to let the audience know who she is. This book is vital, real, raw and unapologetic. This book is recommended for a mature audience only, who'd like to enter, dissect, invade, and intrude the psyche of a woman. This account is recommended to those who'd like to be enriched, bewitched, offended, discovered and infected by a Nubian Princesses' angst and audacity to speak her mind. The author speaks to the African-American community, the feminist community, the hip-hop, spoken word, "don't give a fuck ," smoke so much doja, drank so much yak, bling-bling, and do my thang community, to the sista's sitting pretty and oh so sedity, to the brotha's on lock with no key, to all the Wannabe's (new tribe in AfreeCA), to the Anybody community. ThisBook is a testament to the testament "Word is born "