This book provides the first analysis and review of the Commission on Religious Education's proposed worldviews framework for the subject. It argues that religious education has an important contribution to make to the aims of liberal education.

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) and of Crisis, Controversy and the Future of Religious Education (2020), both published by Routledge.

Introduction: From religions to worldviews, 1. The Religious Education Commission: A view from the inside, 2. A New Settlement? A defence of the 1944 Act, 3. Who are the professionals in religious education? The Commission on Religious Education's side-lining of the religious voice, 4. Does the worldviews approach provide a new paradigm for religious education?, 5. The world is not enough: Religious education beyond worldview perspectivism, 6. The philosophy of 'worldviews', 7. 'Religion', 'worldviews' and the reappearing problems of pedagogy, 8. Worldviews - a threat to religious education but ignored in science education?, 9. Turning to worldviews education instead of religion: Helpful solution or even more problems? A perspective from Germany