ABSTRACT
In a article in the British Journal of Religious Education, Denise Cush and Catherine Robinson have argued that ‘a dialogue needs to be re-established between religious studies in universities and religious education in schools and teacher education in the spirit of the pioneers of non-confessional multi-faith religious education’. This chapter deals with what Cush and Robinson have to say about their proposed dialogue with developments in religious studies. This is used as a springboard to a wider discussion of the historical influence of religious studies on religious education. Cush and Robinson review a number of developments in religious studies that they believe ‘have something to offer religious education’. They provide short accounts of feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, religion and belief, both in contemporary Britain and in a ‘globalised world’, and they review the debate within religious studies on the use of the concepts of ‘religion’ and ‘religions’.
