Negotiating Religion and Non-Religion in Childhood: Experiences of Worship in School

by Rachael Shillitoe

This book explores how and if the mandate for children to worship in schools can be justified within the context of declining church attendance and increasing nonreligious identification in British society. Shillitoe asks what place compulsory worship has in an increasingly diverse and plural society, and what the answer means for the relationship between religion, the secular, and education more broadly. Through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031398599
• ISBN13: 9783031398599
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"