Exploring the intersections between human rights education and religious education

We are happy to present this special issue of Human Rights Education Review, which explores the intersections between human rights education (HRE) and religious education (RE). For the first time, the journal devotes an entire issue to bringing together two distinct fields of research, each with its own scholarly literature, in the hope of expanding HRE research. Most contributors to this issue are religious education scholars. RE researchers have for a long time engaged with human rights issues, and here they break new interdisciplinary ground by engaging explicitly with HRE in new ways. For HRE scholars, RE in public schools should be a highly interesting and relevant field of enquiry, one that raises a wide range of human rightsrelated questions in an educational setting.