Christianity, culture and other religions (Part 1): the origins of the study of world religions in English education

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This, the first of two articles on the subject, explores the origins of the view that religions other than Christianity should figure in the study of religion in English universities and schools. It will be shown that the major impetus for such study came not from secularism but from late nineteenth and early twentieth century liberal Protestantism, influenced by philosophical idealism which saw all religions as deriving from humanity's common religious experience. It will be argued in this and the second article on the subject that the current government's policy of insisting upon the primacy of Christianity and the separate and subordinate treatment of other faiths is at variance with the spirit of this important tradition in English theology and religious education.

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