ABSTRACT
An account of religious education which confines itself, as often is the case, to the development of the sense of sacredness and transcendence, or which focuses on a spiritual dimension, or which locates these within an historical narrative (whether that be of the Bible, the Qu’ran, or the Torah) does not complete the story. Thus, Durkheim (1971) argued for the intrinsic relation between the religious idea of the sacred in our lives and the human society.
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
(quoted in Grace 2016, p.2)