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Justice, Spirituality & Education Journal

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2013

Religious education; Social justice and education

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Justice, Spirituality, And Education: Working Definitions From Secular, Judeo-Christian, And Biblically-Based Perspectives, June Hetzel, Rachel Beck Jan 2013

Justice, Spirituality, And Education: Working Definitions From Secular, Judeo-Christian, And Biblically-Based Perspectives, June Hetzel, Rachel Beck

Justice, Spirituality & Education Journal

The issue of justice and social justice has been and still is a controversial topic in society today. A struggle exists both to define and to enact it. The same can be said of the concepts of spirituality and education. The concepts of justice, spirituality, and education intersect in community responsibility, the topic of this journal. A brief examination of the secular, Judeo- Christian, and Biblical definitions of the terms justice, spirituality, and education lends insight, not only into how communities compare and contrast one another in their working definitions of these terms, but also serves to identify commonalities and …