ABSTRACT
Right knowledge, right attitudes, right intentions and right equipment might be regarded as the prerequisites of teaching world religions. Many of the religious texts which contain the foundation material for doctrines also provide a design for living and explanations of ritual practices such as sacred meals or festivals. It might seem best, therefore, to approach the Bible, the Guru Granth Sahib or the Qur’an less as a book full of stories and more as the revered literature of a community. The biblical material about Moses or Jesus and the similar biographical information about Muhammad or Guru Janak have a theological content which is more significant than the simple narrative usually told to children. Individual teachers may wish to add other reasons of their own. They have then to put them together and work out some sort of syllabus which satisfies the criteria.
