ABSTRACT
The Durham Report on Religious Education, which appeared in June 1970, offers an authoritative survey of the role of religion in education in England and Wales. The first proposition needs qualification and is indeed qualified both directly and by implication at various points in the Report. The truth of the matter seems to be that some aspects of some religions are justifiable as part of the curriculum. The linguistic argument, as it is being called, is in itself a valuable comment on teaching religion. The Report discusses the problems which arise from the tension between worship understood theologically and worship understood educationally. The Report concludes that direction of school worship should continue to be a statutory provision. This is considered necessary in order to avoid changes of policy with changes of personnel and to avoid local controversy if responsibility for worship were to become local.
