Educating in Faith : Maps and Visions

Mary Boys offers a new way of thinking about what it means to educate religiously. Utilizing the method of "map-making" to broaden the context of American religious education, Boys defines a process that incorporates each instructor's own experiences, perspectives, and analytical insights to develop more compelling teaching methods. By placing both Protestant and Catholic religious education in both a historical and conceptual framework, Boys establishes a theological and educational basis for providing answers to central questions: What does it mean to educate in faith? What is the teacher's role? How much emphasis should be given to psychology, anthropology, and sociology? Toward what view of society is a theory of religious education oriented? Book jacket.

Mary C. Boys, Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, taught theology and religious education at Boston College for seventeen years. She is the author of four books and editor of two others. In addition to her six books she has published some sixty articles in books and journals such as Concilium, Horizons, Religious Education, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Cross Currents, SIDIC, and the Journal of Ecumenical Studies