Does Religious Education Work?

James C. Conroy is Vice-Principal (Internationalisation) and Professor of Religious and Philosophical Education at the University of Glasgow, UK.David Lundie is Senior Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK.Robert A. Davis is Professor of Religious and Cultural Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK.Vivienne Baumfield is Professor of Pedagogy, Policy and Innovation at the University of Glasgow, UK.L. Philip Barnes is Emeritus Reader in Religious and Theological Education at King's College London, UK.Tony Gallagher is Professor of Education and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast, UK, where he was previously Head of the School of Education. Kevin Lowden is Research Fellow at the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) Centre, University of Glasgow, UK.Nicole Bourque is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Glasgow, UK.Karen Wenell is Lecturer in New Testament and Theology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

A salutary and timely reminder to us of the crucial significance of the value of RE in the UK curriculum ... [This book] represents the latest thinking on the subject.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Methodological and Structural Questions1. Methodological Considerations: Learning from the Inside2. The Strange Position of Education in Religion in Contemporary Political Culture3. The Complexities of UK Policy and Practice4. Conceptual Questions, Confusions and ChallengesPart II: The Substance of Religious Education5. Citizenship and Committed Pluralism: The Place of the ‘other’ in RE’s Social and Civic Aims6. Religious Education and the Nature of Texts7. Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Sense of Religious Education in Communities of Practice8. Religious Education and Student PerspectivesConclusions: Imagining and re-Imagining Religious EducationAppendicesIndex