Introduction : Problems and possibilities of religious education today / Werner G. Jeanrond and Lisa Sowle Cahill – . I. Analyses of Christian religious formation in different contexts – The family home as the place of religious formation / Florence Caffrey Bourg – Gender, culture, and Christian faith formation / Susan Ross – Religious education in school - possibilities and limitations / Norbert Mette – The impact of the media on the religious formation of boys and girls / Rolv Notvik Jakobsen – II. Experiences and reflections by different agents of religious formation – Heard and seen : the challenge of religious formation in families / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore – Religious education of children and young people faced with the challenges of a changing world / Israel Jose Nery – Faith, formation and freedom : categories of religious education in the Church / Werner G. Jeanrond – Catholic schools : white elephant or centres of evangelization? / Ede nio Valle – III. Emerging proposals, models and concepts of religious formation – Total catechetical education / Thomas H. Groome – Music, liturgy and religious formation / Bruce T. Morrill – Some notes regarding formation to interreligious dialogue / Franco Sottocornola – Documentation – Abusing the faith : crisis in the Church / Donald J. Dietrich.