On 12 June I attended the last of the four workshops at UCL in the series on Negotiating Religion: Inquiries into the History and Present of Religious Accommodation. Number four was entitled Legal Frameworks: Schools and Religious Freedom and included a paper by Professor Ian Leigh on Teaching Religion: Religious Education, Religious Worship and General Syllabus, much of which was concerned with an analysis of recent ECtHR jurisprudence on the curriculum and the wider teaching of “religion”, however defined: in particular Folgerø & Ors v Norway 15472/02 [2007] ECHR (GC) 546, Zengin v Turkey 1448/04 [2007] ECHR 787, Appel-Irrgang & Ors v Germany 45216/07 [2009] ECHR 783 and Grzelak v Poland 7710/02 [2010] ECHR 904. Continue reading →