Seminar 2

Collective Worship - Opportunities and Challenges

University of Strathcylde

Spring 2015

The Network’s second seminar built on the issues identified in Seminar 1 and explored a range of areas central to evaluating the role of collective worship and religious observance in schools.

Papers were presented on the following topics:

• Children’s autonomy and collective worship
• The contribution of collective worship/religious observance to spiritual development
• Collective worship and yheology: issues and questions
• Philosophy with Children: an approach to religious observance
• The law on collective school worship: a twentieth century instrument of state survival
• Human rights aspects of collective worship or religious observance in schools
• Collective school worship: beyond obituary

Final versions of the papers will be published in an edited collection in 2016/17.

Paper abstracts may be viewed here.