A major critical review of religious education internationally, On Holy Ground provides an original contribution to the theory and practice of religious education, and a serious and significant challenge to teachers, theorists and researchers in religious education worldwide.

Professor Liam Gearon is Professor of Education at Oxford University. He taught religious education in schools in the northwest and southwest of England before, in 1996, leading the PGCE Religious Education at Roehampton, until 2003. Vice-Chair of the Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education, a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Religious Education, and peer-reviewer for many journals, Professor Gearon is guest editor of the International Journal of Children's Spirituality for a special 2006 issue on human rights. The author and editor of numerous books in literature and religion as well as education, some of his recent publications include Teaching Citizenship in the Secondary School (2002), Religion and Human Rights (2003), Citizenship through Secondary Religious Education (2004), and Freedom of Expression and Human Rights (2005). He is former Director of the Centre for Research in Human Rights.

Part I Enlightenment's Offspring: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education 1. Philosophy, Theology and Religious Education 2. Religious Education and the Natural Sciences 3. Religious Education and the Social Sciences 4. Religious Education and Phenomenology 5. Psychology, Spirituality and the Religious Education 6. Religious Education, the Arts and Humanities 7. Religious Education and Politics Part II On Holy Ground: Overgrown Paths in Religious Education 8. The Idea of the Holy in Religious Education