ABSTRACT
Events like 11 September 2001 in the United States and the Bali bombing in November 2002 tell us that the world is not always unified by a common vision of how to order society. Since the beginning of the new millennium terror in the name of religion – with claims and counter-claims that such terror is not part of the tradition – has shown that far from disappearing from the public domain into a post-Enlightenment, privatised domain, religion is still ‘out there’. In our discussions of religious education and citizenship there is something fundamental at stake about how modern societies should operate.
