Welcome to Religion and Education, a special interest group of the American Education Research Association. According to Article IV. of the bylaws, the purposes of the Religion and Education are:

1. To provide an academic and research forum to present and discuss diverse issues relevant to religious education and the relationship between faith and educational outcomes;

2. To provide an academic and interdisciplinary research forum to present and discuss issues about the role religion has played, does play, and should play in the public and private school experience;

3. To encourage the presentation of high quality quantitative and/or qualitative research, as well as other types of academic interdisciplinary inquiry, into issues of religious education, personal faith and school-based and school-related academic and behavioral outcomes;

4. To promote the idea that people of faith and religious conviction should have “a place at the table” in terms of federal, state, and local education policy originating from the government, school, and all other policy-making forums;

5. To increase multicultural communication and understanding between people of different denominations and faiths; and

6. To provide a safe space for people of faith and all religion-related viewpoints to safely communicate their research results and perspectives on faith without fear of being disparaged because of their views.

We want to welcome you to the website of the Religion and Education Special Interest Group. We welcome you to join this SIG, interact with us, and become part of our family! Indeed, over the years we have developed a reputation for being a place of love and are in many ways like a family. We are a family of scholars that recognize the role that faith plays in the lives of countless millions of people in the United States, the North American continent, and around the world. We want to help religious scholars of faith succeed in the academic world. If you are looking for a place where you are loved and appreciated as a family member, as well as aided in your scholarly pursuits, you have found the right SIG. We welcome all faith traditions whether a person is an Evangelical Christian or a Hindu, from the Catholic faith or is Jewish, is a Buddhist or is of an Islamic belief, a mainline Protestant or a Mormon, and so forth. Our standards are high and the research is rigorous. We are blessed to have in our SIG members who are some of the leading researchers in the field and we are equally blessed to those who are relatively new in their academic journey. Please feel free to contact me any time. I want to help you in any way that I can.

Prof. Zehavit Gross

grossz1111@gmail.com

Religion & Education SIG Chair