Teaching or preaching — Max Charlesworth and religious education van Hooft, Stan 2012, Teaching or preaching — Max Charlesworth and religious education, Sophia, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 531-544, doi: 10.1007/s11841-012-0332-2. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Teaching or preaching — Max Charlesworth and religious education Author(s) van Hooft, Stan Journal name Sophia Volume number 51 Issue number 4 Start page 531 End page 544 Total pages 14 Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of publication Dordrecht, The Netherlands Publication date 2012-12 ISSN 0038-1527 1873-930X Keyword(s) education religion Max Charlesworth liberalism secularism pluralism modernism Summary In this essay I elaborate on the theoretical framework – that of Millian liberalism – that Max Charlesworth brought to many public issues, including that of the relation between education and religion. I will then apply this framework to a debate in which I have been recently involved myself: a debate around the provision of religious instruction in public schools. In the first section I expound Charlesworth’s rejection of secularism in education in a liberal pluralist state and his defence of faith-based schooling. In the second section I uncover the religious motivations behind the Victorian government’s 1950 amendments to the apparently secularist Victorian Education Act of 1872. In section three, I explore the notion of secularism more fully and suggest that the struggle between those who espouse religious instruction in state schools and those who oppose it while advocating a more general form of education about religion is a symptom of a deeper tension between liberalism and communitarianism within the culture of modernist, liberal states. Language eng DOI 10.1007/s11841-012-0332-2 Field of Research 220199 Applied Ethics not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 950499 Religion and Ethics not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30050390 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 04 Feb 2013, 09:33:28 EST Mon, 04 Feb 2013, 14:05:17 EST Tue, 12 Feb 2013, 15:45:27 EST Tue, 12 Feb 2013, 15:46:43 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 16:29:20 EST Tue, 03 Feb 2015, 13:21:17 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 600 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 04 Feb 2013, 09:33:11 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas