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Should philosophy replace religious education? Reflections following brendan larvor's article ‘Tu Quoque, archbishop’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

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Abstract

In Think, Issue 7, Brendan Larvor took the Archbishop of Canterbury to task for suggesting that atheism and humanism should not be taught in schools alongside the major faiths. Here, Brenda Watson defends the Archbishop's position.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2005

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2 Bausor, J. and Poole, M., ‘Science-and-religion in the Agreed Syllabuses — An Investigation and Some Suggestions’, British Journal of Religious Education 25:1 (2003) pp. 1832.CrossRefGoogle Scholar