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Reviews – My way: A Muslim Woman’s Journey
Research update
Research project on English secondary RE teachers’ views on and experiences of the teaching of non-religious worldviews
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On these pages I regularly invite readers and colleagues to share their views about books they have enjoyed. Julie Grove has responded with a review of a book by Mark Oakley – theologian, poet, broadcaster, Dean of...
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There are occasions when a book warrants the attention and space for a deeper review. Here, Bill Gent provides a critical overview of a book that brings together the writings of a significant scholar in the fields of...
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Is it possible to do justice to a subject as diverse as the history of religion in fewer than 250 pages? Can it really be more than the ‘Cook’s Tour’ of religions that good religious educators aim to avoid? Who...
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As I read the reviews below I was reminded of the writings of philosopher Maria Lugones¹ and her use of the metaphor of ‘worldtravelling’. She describes how by travelling to the ‘worlds’ of others we can...
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It’s important to give time and space for books that are controversial and thought-provoking. Both the reviews below concern writers who have challenged some well-established theological assumptions, offering...
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Coincidentally, I had been reading Gadamer’s work on truth and method in the context of my research into the ‘use’ of stories that some people might describe as ‘not even true’, when I read Nigel...
Book review – How I Stopped Being a Jew
Book review – The Children Act
Ian McEwan, The Children Act (Jonathan Cape 2014), 224pp, hardback, £16.99, ISBN 9780224101998.