This chapter identifies a significant lacuna in researching religious authority in education. Based on findings from an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project in which the author conducted fifty interviews with senior religious leaders and authority figures in England, I present a working definition of religious authority and a further justification or warrant for engagement with religious authority in educational research. I frame these empirically grounded methodological reflectio

First Author: Arthur, James; Lovat, Terence

Attributed to: Political Theologies:Responses of Religious Leaders and Authority Figures In England to Contemporary Issues of Freedom of Expression funded by AHRC

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Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: The Routledge International Handbook of Religion and Values (2013)

ISBN: 978-0-415-51919-9