This paper draws on experience of a series of ethnographic studies of religion in the lives of
children and young people which provided the basis for a religious education curriculum
project. All focused exclusively upon eight to thirteen year olds except for one longitudinal
study which involved 16 to 23 year olds. The children were drawn respectively from Hindu,
Christian, Jewish, Sikh and Muslim communities in the British Midlands. This paper will refer
to the research with young Hindus, Christians and Sikhs in Coventry between 1986 and 1996
