HANDBOOK OF ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
HANDBOOK OF ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
edited by Nancy T. Foltz
Summary: Here is the most thorough and most comprehensive treatment available on the entire scope of adult religious education. This exceptionally helpful book deals in death and in breadth with most of the major problems, issues, and opportunities facing contemporary adult religious education in a wide variety of circumstances and conditions.
Spirit of the Book: The spirit of this book is usefulness. Its great usefulness lies in the enormous range of adult religious education situations and issues which it covers in a way which not only illumines practice but makes practice work better.
What this Book Gives You: This book gives you virtually everything you need to know about working successfully with adults in a whole host of situations and conditions: with young adults and older adults, with single adults and middle-aged adults, with adults who are divorced and adults who are dying. Very importantly, this book gives you both concrete practices for effective adult religious education plus the important theoretical framework that generates and explains these practices.
Distinctiveness: Why this Book is Special: This book is distinctive no other book inclusively meshes three major axes involved in working successfully in adult religious education: (1) the axis of foundational principles; (2) the axis of age-related groupings; (3) the axis of concrete situational contexts. Furthermore, this book is very special because of its exquisite combination of breadth and depth. There are some other adult religious education books which cover many topics, but not with the depth of the Foltz volume. And there are some other books on adult religious education which go deep but do not cover the same enormous range of topics that the Foltz volume does.
Major Features: The major features of this state-of-the-art book include: (1) its comprehensiveness; (2) it is more heavily researched than any other book on general adult religious education; (3) it explicitly grounds adult religious education practice in solid research and theory.
Chapters
1. The Purposes and Scope of Adult Religious
Education
2. Basic Principles of Adult Religious Education
3. Working with
Young Adults
4. Working with Middle-Aged Adults
5. Working with Older
Adults
6. Working with Educators of Adults
7. Working with Single
Parents
8. Working with Adults in Separation and Divorce
9. Working with
Adults in Death-Related Circumstances
10. The Future of Adult Religious
Education
Contributors: Contributors include many of the most important adult religious education authorities: Leon McKenzie, Sharon Merriam, R. E. Y. Wickett, Linda Jane Vogel, R. Michael Harton, Trenton Ferro, Richard Hunt, Mary Louise Mueller, and Nancy Foltz.
Praise for this Book: This book is very highly acclaimed:
MALCOLM KNOWLES of North Carolina State University and author of THE MODERN PRACTICE OF ADULT EDUCATION calls this book: " classic in the field. This volume is a how-to-think-bigger book and a how-to-do-it book. This book can transform the soul of adult religious education and multiply its effectiveness in accomplishing its mission."
A review in CHRISTIAN EDUCATION JOURNAL states: This volume deals with nearly every topic or area appropriate to adult religious education. It fills in gaps left by other books. It is a must book."
A review in JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT (Canada) says: "This an intelligent book. It utilizes an abundance of current research about adult education. It combines humane concepts of education with an understanding of religion and thus might challenge some old biases."
H. CLAUDE YOUNG of the United Methodist Church and author of WHY GLOBAL: THE LOCAL CHURCH AND WORLD COMMUNITY writes: "I highly recommend this book to all persons concerned with effective ministry with adults."
Price and
Such:
272 pages List Price: $24.95 ISBN
0-89135-052-7