Yonah Hisbon Matemba is Senior Lecturer in the Division of Education, School of Education and Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, UK. He is the co-author of Religious Education in Malawi and Ghana: Perspectives on Religious Misrepresentation and Misclusion (2021). Bruce A. Collet is Professor in the School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy in the College of Education and Human Development at Bowling Green State University, USA. He is the author of Migration, Religion, and Schooling in Liberal Democratic States (2018).
This book gives a comprehensive picture of Religion and Education in specific regions of the Global South. The discourses on religious/religion education critiquing and questioning policies and teaching strategies should appeal to researchers to explore the complexities of the GS multilayered societies. * Cornelia Roux, Emeritus Professor of Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa * Editors Matemba and Collet focus needed attention to a long neglected topic in their new handbook—religious education (RE) in the Global South. Explicating the political, cultural, and demographic millieu, contributors illuminate the challenges and opportunities for RE in this economically underdeveloped area with a billion people living in poverty. * Michael D. Waggoner, Professor of Education, University of Northern Iowa, USA * The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Education in the Global South is a work of incalculable current-day importance. In an era when decolonising the curriculum is very much to the fore, this authoritative collection provides an expert guide to the literature and lived experience of religious education in the southern hemisphere. * Liam Francis Gearon, Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, UK *