The Mindfulness Opportunity

18 Jan 2017

In A New Buddhist Path, David Loy attempts to bring into dialogue what he calls the transcendent and immanent streams of Buddhism that can roughly be mapped today onto the eastern (“religious”) and western (“secular”) Buddhist traditions. He asks, ‘What is the meaning...

Change and Opportunity – the new ISEB RS proposal

5 Dec 2016

Times are changing rapidly in terms of the way our subject is understood and how it is to be assessed. Senior schools are already learning to adjust to the GCSE Religious Studies specifications and A Level specifications launched this September. With new subject...

ISRSA competition for schools!

19 Nov 2016

Please click here to see details of the ISRSA’s exciting new competition for schools, open to senior and prep school students and inviting them to reflect on ‘Why Religious Studies matters to me.’ Prep school entries should be not more than 400...
We need to talk about religion

We need to talk about religion

12 Sep 2016

Alice McNeill is Head of Theology at Ampleforth College and the Chair of the Independent Schools Religious Studies Association. Education in England has always been intertwined with religion, and yet this year we are facing some fundamental decisions about the place...