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...

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...

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...