ABSTRACT
The place of religion in education has long been controversial. There is no simple answer to the question of how religion and education are related because the religious history of each nation-state gives manifold form to those relations (see Jackson 2007). This is far more than an issue of whether Religious Education ought to be taught in schools, not least because educational formation takes place across the whole of life. From a philosophical perspective, the relations between religion and education have been usefully arranged into themes: religious upbringing, faith schools, religious education in the curriculum, religious philosophies of education, and issues of religious identity (see Strhan 2014). In what follows these themes will provide a broad horizon for thinking about the postsecular in education.
