Articles
Personal Knowldeged analysed
Richard Coupe gave this talk at the June conference of the Association of University Lecturers in RE and the Assocaition of RE Inspectors, Advisors and Consultants
Hinduism and Worldviews
Seeta Lakhani blasts the approach to Hinduism taken in Religion and Worldviews.
Seeta Lakhani
In all ancient religions which have come down to us at the present day, we find one claim made - that they are all metaphysical. The origin is not the human brain, but somewhere outside of it. Some believe that ancestor worship is the beginning of religious ideas:...
Richard Coupe Talk at Westminster March 2024
INTRODUCTION I would like to start by expressing my enormous gratitude to Fiona Bruce for hosting tonight’s event, in the midst of so many parliamentary responsibilities; also to Lucy Williams, who has managed all the details of the evening, and to Guy Hordern...
Philip Barnes Westminsted address
(This is the transcript of a talk delivered on Tuesday, 12th March in the Jubilee Room, Palace of Westminster, to a symposium on “What should high-quality religious education look like?) In this short presentation, I interact with some of the main proposals of the...
Religion in schools is too important to marginalise
Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali published this article in the Times at the end of January, in which he urges stronger support for religion-based RE in schools, and rejects the subject’s morphing into a ‘worldviews’ approach as something which does an injustice to religion. He also urges more and better RE to prepare pupils spiritually and to enable them to understand better the world as it is. We are grateful to the Times for allowing us to use the article.