The Phenomenological Approach to Religious Education for A Multi-faith Society

Religious Education Problems in a Multi-Faith Society The idea of religious education presents few difficulties when the society is unambiguous about its religion, or where the majority of the population claims formal allegiance to the State Religion, However, in a society where such unanimity is not present then a solution is found in excluding religion from state schools, as in the public schools in the United States. On the other hand, as in England, where there has always been a strongly established church and vigorous bodies of dissent, a compromise position was evolved. As far back as 1870 there was agreement that if religion was taught in the maintained school it would exclude