WCF works to develop better understanding, co-operation
and respect between people of different faiths
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WCF works to develop better understanding, co-operation and respect between people of different faiths
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JAY LAKHANI BECOMES ETON COLLEGE's FIRST HINDU TUTORJay Lakhani, Head of the Hindu Academy and Education Director for the Hindu Council UK and member of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Faiths, has been appointed to the post of part time Hindu Tutor at Eton College. Mr Lakhani’s role will be to provide pastoral support and religious teaching to Hindu boys at the school, and contribute to school inter-faith activities. Because religion plays an important role at Eton, all boys are expected to take part in weekday chapel services. For many years Jewish boys have been able to take instruction from a Jewish Tutor during Sunday Chapel and, for the last four years, the College has had a Muslim Tutor to offer the same service to Muslim boys. The appointment of Jay Lakhani’s means Hindu boys will now be offered the same choice. The series of events leading to Mr Lakhani’s appointment began when the Head of Divinity, Michael Wilcockson, met Jay at a conference for Religious Education teachers earlier this year. "I asked him to give a talk on science and Hinduism to our philosophy society, which so impressed the Hindu boys, they asked if they could have him as their Hindu Tutor,” explains Mr Wilcockson. “I thought this was an excellent idea, feeling Jay would fit in superbly with our Jewish and Muslim Tutors because his views on other faiths are so inclusive. He is always intellectually robust, which Tutors have to be here, and passionate about his own faith tradition. I approached the Provost and the Head Master, who were equally supportive of the idea, and so Jay is to hold his first session here on Sunday 20th April." Mr Lakhani, who is also a Director of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, says of his appointment: - "I see this as an exciting opportunity to explore a broader vision of spirituality with the boys at Eton College, particularly how the Hindu idea of spiritual humanism manages to reconcile differences between religious and secular world-views. Religious pluralism offers the best prescription for making religions once again the cohesive force in our society. It is wonderful to see Eton College embracing these wider aspects of personal and spiritual development." |
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