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Problems Of Education And Religion: The national office of the association in New York City provides consultations and information on many problems, especially on frontier; developments in its field. Since 1906 the association has published the bimonthly Religious Education, the only periodical in the field dealing with basic problems of education and religion from the viewpoints of the major faiths of the United States. The editorial office is in New Haven, Conn.
Among other activities, the Religious Education Association organizes seminars, round tables, and workshops and holds occasional national conventions: (1) to discuss the theories, philosophy, and methods of religious 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 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 and character formation ; (4) to stimulate research and experimentation in the entire field of religious and character education.
Protestant Education.—During the coloni period in America all education went hand hand with religion. Catechetical and Biblic instruction were a regular part of the curriculu of the schools. Higher education was in t hands of the church, its chief purpose being t! training of ministers.
From the time of the American Revolution the middle of the 19th century a radical transitii took place. The influence of religion gradual declined during and following the revolution, d in part to the disorganization occasioned by tl war and in part to the challenge of the 18th ce tury philosophy of the Enlightenment to prevailii dogma. |
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