L. Philip Barnes is Reader in Religious and Theological Education at King's College London, UK.
Education, Religion and Diversity identifies and explores the commitments and convictions that have guided post-confessional religious education and concludes controversially that the subject as currently theorised and practised is incapable of challenging religious intolerance and of developing respectful relationships between people from different communities and groups within society.
1. The Rhetoric of Success and the Reality of Underachievement in Religious Education 2. Traditional and Modern Diversity 3. Late Modern Diversity 4. The Demise of Confessional Religious Education 5. Ninian Smart and Working Paper 36 6. Phenomenological Religious Education: Axioms and Commitments 7. Phenomenological Religious Education: Criticism and Revision 8. Religion, Phenomenology and Religious Understanding 9. John Hull, the Enlightenment Project and the Liberal Model of Religious Education 10. The Liberal Model of Religious Education: A Final Critique 11.Postmodern thought 12. Postmodern Religious Education 13. Representing Religions, Developing Respect for Others and Interpretive Religious Education 14. Religious Education and Moral Education 15. A New Post-Liberal Model of Religious Education