Christianity, culture and other religions (Part 2): F H Hilliard, Ninian Smart and the 1988 Education Reform Act

Autor:	Dennis Bates
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	Education reform media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Reactionary Christianity Worship Education Ethos Law Multiculturalism Religious education Sociology Comparative religion media_common
Zdroj:	British Journal of Religious Education. 18:85-102
ISSN:	1740-7931 0141-6200
DOI:	10.1080/0141620960180204
Popis:	This article identifies two major views of the place of world religions in religious education, influential since the nineteen sixties. The first, associated with F H Hilliard and the Durham Report (1970), sees the purpose of religious education as primarily to teach Christianity, the religion of English culture, and to practise its worship but with some separate and subordinate reference to other religions; the second, associated with Ninian Smart and Schools Council Working Paper No. 36 (1971), argues for the empathetic study of the world's major religions with a view to gaining a critical understanding of religion as a global phenomenon. Although the second view became prominent during the ‘seventies and ‘eighties, the 1988 Education Reform Act is seen as attempting to restore the first. Despite its formal recognition of the teaching of other world religions, the Act is held to have been inspired by reactionary thinking out of keeping with the ethos and needs of a multicultural society.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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