Crisis, Controversy and the Future of Religious Education sets out to provide a much-needed critical examination of recent writings that consider and respond to the crisis in religious education and more widely to a crisis in non-confessional forms of religious education, wherever practised.

Acknowledgements About the Author Preface Introduction 1 What is Wrong with Religious Education? 2 Democracy, Ideology and a New World Order 3 Religious Studies, Religious Education and the Return of Theology 4 Human Rights, Values and Religious Freedom 5 Worldviews, Justice and Inclusion 6 Humanism, Worldviews and Hermeneutics 7 Religious Education and a Statutory National Religious Education Curriculum 8 Compulsion, Conscience and the Right of Withdrawal 9 The Holy, the Idea of the Holy and Religious Education 10 Towards the Future Bibliography Index

L. Philip Barnes is Emeritus Reader in Religious and Theological Education, King's College London. He is the author of Education, Religion and Diversity: Developing a New Model of Religious Education (2014), also published by Routledge.