Religion and education : Islamic and Christian approaches [Book review]

Abstract

Religion and Education: Islamic and Christian Approaches is a compilation of papers presented in a series of public lectures and seminars on religion and education at the University of Cambridge between 1983 and 1989. Five of the authors are themselves academics at that institution, four of them in education and also Christian. Other authors include a Muslim social scientist in the U.S.A., a Muslim academic in earth sciences in Saudi Arabia, a Christian academic in English in England, a Christian academic in education in Northern Ireland, a Muslim academic in religious studies in England, a Christian minister in England, and a Muslim who is an education inspector in England. Thus, nine of the authors are academics, and five of them are educationalists. A11 share an impassioned interest in advocating religious education; all share a rejection of secular education; and all share a desire to replace the existing public, secular education with public religious education.