This article provides a defence of my theoretical analysis of paradigm shift in contemporary religious education, particularly in light of Robert Jackson's (2015) article published in this journal: 'Misrepresenting religious education's past and present in looking forward: Gearon using Kuhn's concepts of paradigm, paradigm shift and…

This paper challenges a foundational conjecture of the Religion in Education Dialogue or Conflict (REDCo) project, that increased interest in religion in public and political life as manifested particularly in education is evidence of counter-secularisation. The paper argues that rather than representing counter-secularisation, such developments…

The article attempts to outline the beginning of a wider interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between a number of fields that appear initially incongruent and unconnected, but which, on closer examination, are integrally related. Taking totalitarianism as a conceptual core, the article begins by defining some of the historical and…