ABSTRACT
Religion in school might be described as an appendix without a body. Once the body was definite, it was the Bible, but in many schools today the Judaeo-Christian scriptures have themselves become an appendix at the end of a life-theme, or an afterthought to Hinduism or one of the other Eastern faiths. An adequate religious education would examine ultimate questions and a variety of answers which are given to them, atheistic and theistic. It would also attempt to probe to the heart of topical and perennial relationship-issues—peace, race, friendship and the like. Religion in education can no longer, therefore, imitate the believing community. In the curriculum, however, the importance of religious studies is enhanced, once the traditional purpose of inducting pupils into belief has been rejected. It can play its proper part together with other aspects of the curriculum as an academic discipline.
