This book explores how and if the mandate for children to worship in schools can be justified
within the context of declining church attendance and increasing nonreligious identification
in British society. Shillitoe asks what place compulsory worship has in an increasingly
diverse and plural society, and what the answer means for the relationship between religion,
the secular, and education more broadly. Through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork from
across three schools in southwest England, the book reveals how examining the …

This well-established series embraces global and multi-disciplinary scholarship on
childhood and youth as social, historical, cultural and material phenomena. With the rapid
expansion of childhood and youth studies in recent decades, the series encourages diverse
and emerging theoretical and methodological approaches. We welcome proposals which
explore the diversities and complexities of children's and young people's lives and which
address gaps in the current literature relating to childhoods and youth in space, place and …