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Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2005

Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2005 in .pdf

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Editorial

Employability in Philosophical and Religious Studies

Content

Christian Theology for Ministry and the Quality Assurance Agency Criteria: An Epistemological Critique

Mark J. Cartledge

Reflections on the growth in the provision of Masters level programmes for those engaged in or preparing for Christian ministry.

pp. 26-42

'Like a good brisk walk': The Relationship between Faith Stance and Academic Study in the Experience of First Year Theology Students at the University of Oxford

Christopher Rowland, Duna Sabri, Jonathan Wyatt, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Sarita Cargas and Helenann Hartley

Investigating the problem of students negotiating a course which enables them to explore the interface between their faith commitment and the academic study.

pp. 43-82

Engaged Religious Studies: Some Suggestions for the Content, Methods and Aims of Learning and Teaching in the Future Study of Religions

Denise Cush

This paper was originally given as a keynote speech sponsored by the PRS-LTSN at The Study of Religions: Mapping the Field, the 50th Anniversary conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, September 2004.

pp. 83-103

Islam in Higher Education: University of Birmingham 29-30 January 2005

Gary Bunt

The Islam in Higher Education conference was organised by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Philosophical Studies, the Association of Muslim Social Scientists UK (AMSS) and the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations (CSIC), University of Birmingham.

pp. 104-119

Focus on Employability 2005

Fieldwork Projects in the Sociology of Religion and the Development of Employability Skills: Findings from a Small-Scale Study

Sophie Gilliat-Ray

A report on a course at Cardiff, where students were required to undertake a fieldwork project as a way of developing skills of conducting and presenting social scientific research with a view to the acquisition of skills that might be useful to them in future employment settings.

pp. 120-135

Using Theology and Religious Studies

Stephen Pattison

This report describes the background and content of a course specifically designed for level three, final year students in religious and theological studies at Cardiff University. The course is designed to enable students to apply their intellectual, subject based and transferable skills beyond religious studies (RS) so they can explain the relevance of them to people outside RS in the wider world of employment and social life.

pp. 136-150

Entrepreneurial Consultancies

Christopher Allen and Deirdre Burke

This article discusses an initiative at the University of Wolverhampton to give students the chance to develop work in the area of 'religion and the professions' by exploring the potential for consultanc

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