Teaching Religion: Fifty Years of Religious Education in England and Wales

by Terence Copley

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Teaching Religion is the first book to trace the developments in religious education in England and Wales in the half century to 1994. It starts with the 1944 Butler Act and ends with the DFE Circular of 1994 which was issued to take further the RE provision in the 1988 Education Reform Act.



Teaching Religion sets the changes in religious education against changes in education as a whole and changes in society. The complex interaction between and influence of religious thinkers, religious educators and politicians is explored, as is the suggestion that how we handle religion within the national education system can offer insights into the sort of society we are and aspire to be.




  • ISBN10 0859895106
  • ISBN13 9780859895101
  • Publish Date 1 September 1997
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 11 November 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint University of Exeter Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 248
  • Language English