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On first glance the politicization and securitization of religion may seem remote from education. A second look reveals widespread international initiatives aimed at the uses of education precisely for political and security purposes, notably in the countering of terrorism, violent extremism and ideologies opposed to liberal democratic values. This editorial presents a critical framing on how scholars from a range of interrelated disciplines analyze the interface of religion, education and security. The purpose of this Special Issue is thus critically to engage scholars across religious studies and theology, politics and international relations, security and intelligence studies, to explore through empirical evidence and reasoned argument the role here for religion in education. The volume aims to make some ground-breaking cross-disciplinary theoretical advances and methodological innovations not simply to further debate but to provide the tools for asking new questions and opening new pathways and frameworks for exploring the critical interface of religion, education and security.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 0.1 Religious Authority and the Arts: Aesthetics, Politics, Theology -- 0.2 Political Theology: An Analytical Framework -- 0.3 Political Theology and Elites' Theory: A Methodological Synthesis -- 0.4 Conversations in Political Theology: Critical Findings and a Typology -- 0.5 Conclusions -- Chapter One: Political-Theological Convergence: The Church of England -- 1.1 'The Kissinger question': The Archbishops' Council -- 1.2 'We are talking about the authority of God': A Bishop of the Church of England -- Chapter Two: Political-Theological Conservatism: Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and Evangelical Protestantism -- 2.1 'The life of the Church': A Catholic Archbishop -- 2.2 'Think of tradition as a wheel with scripture as the hub': An Orthodox Christian View -- 2.3 'The radical end of the Reformation': A Baptist Perspective -- 2.4 'Leadership by inspiration': General Secretary of the Methodist Council -- 2.5 'Bible-based, cross-centred, and activist': The Evangelical Alliance -- Chapter Three: Political-Theological Crisis: Judaism -- 3.1 'What we are concerned about is hate speech': Board of Deputies of British Jews -- 3.2 'You don't start talking Jewish without referring back to Biblical times': An Orthodox Jewish Perspective -- Chapter Four: Political-Theological Confrontation: Islam -- 4.1 'My recollections are of these busloads': The Muslim Council of Britain -- 4.2 'We all know that you can't abuse or insult God the Creator or one of his Prophets': A Senior Islamic Scholar Reflects -- Chapter Five: Political-Theological (Re-) Construal (I): Hinduism -- 5.1 'Authority based on insight': International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON) -- 5.2 'Spiritually enlightened personalities, ancient and modern': The Hindu Council UK