REN Conference 2024: A Feast of Faith

The Religious Education Network Conference 2024 Saturday 23rd November 2024 The dynamic and exciting inaugural conference is a must for thinking educators! Keynote speakers Sir Anthony Seldon AI and the Future of Education Msgr Dr Michael Nazir-Ali The Role of...

Personal Knowldeged analysed

Barking Up the Wrong Tree A critique of targeting ‘personal knowledge’ in Religious Education Introduction A tweet recently: a speaker at an online webinar tweeted:  “A worldviews approach that unpacks positionality leads to powerful knowledge for students of RE”...

Hinduism and Worldviews

Religion is not a worldview: it has concrete philosophies and should not be left open to the interpretation of teachers and schools. It is well and good to debate/challenge/discuss these philosophies, but the philosophies themselves should not be left open to...

RE Curriculum

Check the new RE Curriculum page for great examples of worked RE curricula which are exciting, innovative and demonstrate the best in successful, academically rigorous RE, and the development of a Theology, Philosophy, Religion and Ethics curriculum based on very...

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...

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...

Autumn conference

The Religious Education Network’s next major event is the Autumn conference. Watch this space for more details!

REN at Westminster

Nearly 70 experts in Religious Education came together at Parliament on the 12th March for a gathering generously hosted by Fiona Bruce MP, the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Religion and Belief. Its topic was ‘What does knowledge-rich, high quality religious...