Reviews

The current discussions about the nature of ‘worldviews’ in relation to the RE curriculum will, I suspect, continue for a long time. Indeed, it is a very interesting and encouraging conversation, suggesting that...

In this issue’s first review Kate Christopher discusses Kevin O’Grady’s recent book, which addresses the current debate surrounding the transition from teaching RE to the more holistic approach of religion and...

With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the pomp and circumstance surrounding the accession of Charles III, questions about the role of the monarch as Defender of the Faith must surely have been raised for many...

Stories matter. But who tells them? And who hears them? In her TED talk ‘The danger of a single story’, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns that if we hear only a single story about a person or...

What have you read lately? What sparks your interest? Over the years we have aimed to include a broad range of literature beyond that immediately identifiable as being related to RE. Books reviewed
on these...

Following the publication in 2018 of the final report of the Commission on RE (CoRE), there has been a gradual change of focus in thinking about the nature and purpose of RE. Teachers are inevitably preoccupied with...

There is a sense of ‘back to the future’ in this reviews section. We have reviews of two books to get you thinking and questioning: one review by Geoff Teece, the retiring Editor of Professional REflection, and...

In this issue we have reviews from two members of the RE Today team who have clearly made good use of lockdown time for some significant reading. Lat Blaylock’s review of James W. Sire’s book on philosophical...

Who said, ‘One swallow does not make a summer’? Answer: Aristotle in 340 BCE. Everyone loves a good quote, and as I read Deep Thought by Gary Cox, reviewed below, I thought about my much-missed friend and...

As the Keane song goes: ‘Everybody’s changing ...’ Everything changes. At school in the 1960s I studied Scripture. The sign on the door of the room in Goldsmith’s College where I learned about Contemporary...

(Sandstone 2013), 371pp, paperback, £8.99, ISBN 978-1-908737-43-4. Reading this first novel by Eve Harris took me back to the time when, as a youngish teacher, I began to be interested in the world of Hassidic Jewry and...

(Jessica Kingsley 2014), 176pp, paperback, £14.99, ISBN 978-1-84905-413-3.

Janet Dyson, Reviews Editor The two reviews in this edition will be of particular interest to those involved in teaching and research, and to teachers and students of philosophy. In the first review, Geoff Teece commends...

Janet Dyson, Reviews Editor Of the three books reviewed here two will certainly challenge those interested in theological, social, cultural and spiritual inquiry. First, Ed Pawson’s review of Danish writer and teacher...

Three significant books are reviewed in this edition. Julia Diamond-Conway has explored the elusive nature of religious literacy in her review of Religious Literacy in Policy and Practice, edited by Dinham and Francis,...

Both of the reviewers in this issue have urged us, as professionals involved in RE, to make time for our own reading, going beyond texts we are obliged to read to explore those that provoke us to think more widely and...

Julian Stern, Loneliness and Solitude in Education: How to Value Individuality and Create an Enstatic School (Peter Lang 2014), 214pp, paperback, £42, ISBN 9783034317337. In an age where we seem obsessed with students...

Mona Siddiqui, My Way: A Muslim Woman’s Journey (I B Taurus 2015), 222pp, hardback, £20.00, ISBN 9781780769349.  This fine book, one of a large number written by this well-known British Muslim scholar and...

Research project on English secondary RE teachers’ views on and experiences of the teaching of non-religious worldviews

Janet Dyson, Reviews Editor As so often happens, I found both of these reviews made me want to know more about the books and their authors. Bill Gent’s wide-ranging reading frequently introduces us to books we might...