Tillson on religious initiation

Journal of Philosophy of Education 58 (1):104-107 (2024)
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In Children, Religion and the Ethics of Influence, John Tillson argues that initiating children into religion is morally wrong. His argument overlaps and intersects at various points with my own argument against confessional religious education in schools. In this brief reply I consider two notable differences between our arguments.

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