This book is a collection of controversial essays outlining a new role for religious education in the post-Education Reform Act period. The distinguished authors, from a wide range of commitments, educational and religious, present strong and realistic cases for the priority envisaged. The book, therefore, combines a wide agenda for RE within a structure which is reasible and can promote unity. It examines current presuppositions and gives grounds for rethinking them. The thrust of the book is positive, offering some real hope of reconciliation between the so-called confessional and...

Regardless of where and how you live, your body is harboring dozens if not hundreds of toxins that could be sabotaging your health. Low on energy? Dealing with chronic illness? Having trouble losing weight? Toxins might be to blame. From your mattress to your toothpaste to your nonstick pans to the food you eat and the (bottled) water you drink -- every day your body is bombarded with chemicals that can alter the way your body works, affecting its natural processes and capacity to heal and maintain vibrancy. Even though we are built to handle foreign substances effectively, our liver and...

The Effective Teaching of Religious Education provides an accessible yet intellectually rigorous resource for all those involved in the teaching of RE in schools today.

Written with the needs of specialist and non-specialist teachers in mind, in both the primary and secondary sectors, it successfully integrates theory and practice, encouraging debate and reflection on a broad range of issues in what is often regarded as a complex and often controversial subject area.

The second edition has been written with the collaboration of a new co-author, Penny Thompson and has...