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csp-42	Barnes, L. Philip	English Religious Education: Developments, Identity, and Diversity	2018	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4930	198	32	The influence of phenomenological religious education in England reached its peak in 1985 when an official British Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups, chaired by Lord Swann, concluded that a non-dogmatic, non-denominational, https://changing-sp.com/ 236 L. Philip Barnes phenomenological approach to religious education provided the “best and only means of enabling all pupils, from whatever religious background, to understand the nature of religious belief, the religious dimension of human experience and the plurality of faiths in contemporary Britain” (Swann, 1985, p. 518). If classroom experience revealed that phenomenological religious education was less effective in challenging racism and religious intolerance than its first advocates had anticipated, this did not lead religious educators, for the most part, to question either the potential of religious education in this area or phenomenology’s underlying Liberal Protestant philosophical and theological commitments.	cache/csp-42.pdf	txt/csp-42.txt