Teaching and Learning in Communities of Faith: Empowering Adults Through Religious Education (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series)

Why are we here? What is our higher purpose? How can we lead lives of integrity and wholeness?

Increasing numbers of adults, looking for some higher meaning in life, are turning to religion for the answers.Teaching and Learning in Communities of Faith explores the growing movement toward adult religious education and draws on knowledge of the field of adult learning and development to offer strategies for teaching adults in both Christian and non-Christian settings. It emphasizes the importance of integrating religious education with real-life issues and problems.

LINDA J. VOGEL is associate professor of Christian education at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. She has taught and served as director of continuing education at Westmar College and served as diaconal minister of education at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1982 Vogel received the John Leonard Davies Award for contributions to the field of adult education.