ABSTRACT
Dr James C. Conroy is Professor of Religious and Philosophical Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on politics, education and the imagination, the politics and practices of religious schooling and religious education. Tony Gallagher response to Conroy Jim Conroy offers a number of important arguments in his paper, but seems to think that the main argument against separate religious schools is that religion is less important than it once was, therefore the idea of separate religious schools is an anachronism. Much is made of the notion that religious schools are an anachronism in a late industrial liberal democracy but let suppose, for the sake of argument, that a majority of the population are in favour of state support for religious schools – would this be a ground for continuing such state.
