Children as young as five to learn about minority faiths

[Liffrea]

Primary school children should be taught about obscure religions that believe plants have souls and the dead must be eaten by vultures, according to government guidance.

Ministers are recommending that pupils as young as five learn about minority faiths - some of which have a few thousand British followers - alongside Christianity and Islam.

Areas of study in the first religious education programme for primaries include humanism, the faiths of Baha'i, Zoroastrianism and Jainism along with Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and Christianity.


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[Wulfhere]

One particular religious movement, with something like 100,000 adherents in the UK (according to a study conducted by Prof. Ronald Hutton of Bristol University), is noticeable by its absence - Paganism. Excluded, no doubt, because it's the only religion indigenous to Britain.