Religious education association

The Religious Education Association was founded in 1902 by the Council of Seventy, a core group of biblical scholars and teachers in the American Institute of Sacred Literature. The goal of the R.E.A. was to promote religious and moral education. The R.E.A. has produced many publications and has sponsored conventions and round tables on religion and higher education, as well as a major program of research on religious development. The R.E.A. was responsible for forming the National Council on Religion and Public Education. Although predominantly Protestant in the beginning, the R.E.A. now includes Catholic, Jewish and other educators from the U.S. and Canada in four main categories: clergy, professors and researchers, directors and coordinators of religious education, and teachers in elementary and secondary schools.

From the description of Archives of the Religious Education Association, 1902-1988. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 122542640

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