A Continuing Dance |
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| Authors: | Maureen O'Brien |
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| Institution: | Vice President of the Religious Education Association and Program Chair 2009 , Duquesne University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Abstract: | Religious educators who emphasize the public nature and mission of the religious congregation and advocates of national and community service have much in common. Both groups point to a need in the society of the United States to balance the language of individualism and individual rights with a renewed emphasis on communitarian social action. A constructive dialogue between community service‐oriented advocates of school reform and religious educators advocating the social and political nature of being religious addresses a crisis in American spirituality: how can we rouse citizens from our respective secular and religious confessional slumbers. |
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