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.

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.

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