ABSTRACT
The Education Act of 1944 made collective worship and religious instruction in accordance with an agreed syllabus obligatory in both county and voluntary schools; no other aspect of the curriculum was so specified in the Act. This certainly marked the end of a long stormy period in English education when the ‘religious problem’ seemed obstinately insoluble; but did it in the long run do a service or a disservice to the cause of religious education? Mr. Cox’s forthright and lively book makes a valuable contribution to this debate and it will be welcomed by students and teachers who want to think or rethink the matter through. His main concern is that whatever is done in the name of religious education should be in some fundamental sense both religious and educative.
