Christianity, culture and other religions (part 2): F H Hilliard, Ninian Smart and the 1988 Education Reform Act

British Journal of Religious Education

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 85-102

  Bates, Dennis ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Humanities and Applied Social Studies ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0040192345     PISSN: 01416200     EISSN: 17407931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141620960180204     Document Type: Article

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2. The Report of the Committee of the Secondary Examinations Council: Curriculum and Examinations in Secondary Schools (London: HMSO, 1943), p.59
3. Spencer Leeson, Christian Education (London: Longmans Green & Co., 1947), p.24
4. The London Syllabus of Religious Education (London: 1947), pp. 141-144
5. The Middlesex County Agreed Syllabus of Religious Instruction (1948), pp. 231-241. See Part 1 of this article (p.10) for reference to the 1924 Cambridgeshire Syllabus
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11. The Lancashire County Agreed Syllabus of Religious Instruction (1947), pp.90-91
12. For a fuller study of Hilliard's career and educational thought, see J Marshall-Evans, 'A Consideration of the Educational Thought of Frederick Hadaway Hilliard, with Particular Reference to his Contribution to Religious Education' (University of Birmingham MEd dissertation, 1984). I should like to acknowledge the helpfulness of this study in the writing of this article
13. See A F Walls, 'A Bag of Needments for the Road: Geoffrey Parrinder and the Study of Religion in Britain', Religion, 10:2 (Autumn 1980), pp.141-149
14. and 'Religious Studies in the Universities - Scotland" in U King (ed.), Turning Points in Religious Studies (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1990), pp.32-45
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16. ibid
17. F H Hilliard, 'The Non-Christian Religions and the Religion of the Future', Modern Churchman, 34:10-11, p.350
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23. The quotation is taken from Canon Warren's general introduction to the 'Christian Presence' series, the first of which was K Cragg, Sandals at the Mosque: Christian Presence amid Islam (1959)
24. For example, Man in Eastern Religions (London: Epworth, 1946)
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28. R J Goldman, Readiness for Religion (London: Routledge, 1965)
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35. See also A J Ayer (ed.), The Humanist Outlook (London: Pemberton, 1968)
36. H J Blackham, 'A Humanist View of Religious Education', Learning for Living, 4:2 (November 1964), p.20
37. For another moderate Humanist view, see Lionel Elvin's foreword to Hilliard's Teaching Children about World Religions (London: G Harrap & Co.. 1961), pp.5-7
38. The Plowden Committee, Children and their Primary Schools (HMSO, 1967), para.571, p.207
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47. Ninian Smart, 'The Christian and Other Religions', Learning for Living, 1:3 (January 1962), p.20
48. Ninian Smart, The Teacher and Christian Belief (London: James Clarke, 1966), p.104
49. Ninian Smart, The Religious Experience of Mankind (London: Collins, 1969), p.24
50. See also The Phenomenon of Religion (London: Macmillan, 1973)
51. J Hick, God and the Universe of Faiths (London: Macmillan, 1973),'... the different religious traditions may all be encounters with the one infinite reality.' (p.139)
52. For accounts of this process see J Hull, 'Religious Education in a Multi-Religious Society', Learning for Living, 11:1 (September 1971)
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59. The developments of the 'seventies and 'eighties in religious education and religious studies have been covered in a number of articles and books and will only receive brief treatment here. Most recent are: D Bates, 'Religious Education in England, 1953-1992', Word in Life (Catholic University of Australia), 40:3 (August 1992) pp.5-15
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77. and the various units of the Chichester Project. The Farmington Trust project approached the teaching of Christianity with more conservative assumptions. Brenda Watson's most recent book, The Effective Teaching of Religious Education (London: Longmans, 1993) reflects this
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80. House of Lords Official Report: Fifth Series, Vol. 493 column 1455
81. The quotation is from T S Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society (London: Faber & Faber, 1939), p.13
82. The same quotation is found in the Durham Report (p.96), cited by P May and O R Johnson in Religion in our Schools (London: Hodder, 1968) which argues a similar case to that of Baroness Cox. See note 85 below
83. M V C Jeffreys, Glaucon (London: Pitman, 1950), p.160
84. House of Lords Official Report, Vol. 497 column 19