Islamic morality: teaching to balance the record

Title: Islamic morality: teaching to balance the record
Creator: Lovat, Terence
Relation: Journal of Moral Education Vol. 45, Issue 1, p. 1-15
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2015.1136601
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: The article proposes that the teaching of Islamic morality presents as an important if not urgent task for moral education. It offers the opportunity to inform a student body about a vital historical development in the formation of moral thought and action; to challenge and offset a blind spot in Western thinking about Islam in general; to challenge the ease with which radical Islamist views of Islam have captured the minds of Muslim and non-Muslim audiences alike; and, because of the contentious nature of the topic, to provide the kind of robust debate that should accompany moral pedagogy in general. The article focusses on select aspects of historical Islamic morality as exemplars of the contribution to morality made by the religious tradition.
Subject: Islam; radical Islamism; Islamophobia; Islamic morality; pedagogy
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1323577
Identifier: uon:24841
Identifier: ISSN:0305-7240
Language: eng
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