The Religious Education (RE) taught in schools is not suitable for Northern Ireland's increasingly plural society, new research has suggested.
The Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) study, which looked at attitudes to RE in Northern Ireland, was carried out before the UK Supreme Court recently ruled that the Christian-focused RE taught in schools in Northern Ireland was unlawful.
The court said that RE was not taught in "an objective, critical, and pluralistic manner".
But the judgement said that "historically and today, Christianity is the most important religion in Northern Ireland," and knowledge of Christianity would still make up the greater part of the RE curriculum.
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