ABSTRACT
Religious education is a subject which is very much alive and in good health. There have always been Christians ready to criticise it and struggle with its difficulties, and eager to improve the teaching of the subject, and Humanists, Jews and others are joining them, bringing their own insights and challenges. If Christians really wish to open up the subject to members of all faiths, they must remove a number of illogicalities! An eagerness to convert pupils to the acceptance of a religious view of life has sometimes replaced the desire to induct them into the Christian faith. The real revolution in religious education is only beginning. The 1944 Act keeps anchored to a religious stance rather than open inquiry into how man interprets his existence; school worship suggests that openness is a sham and induction is the real purpose of school religion.
