In 2003 South Africa accepted a Policy on Religion and Education, which formalises a particular vision of the role the study of religion(s) can play in national healing, reconciliation and citizenship. The policy gives a particular interpretation and gestalt to the belief that citizens, if empowered, can build a more just and compassionate society. The Policy is a unique South African response to develop and embed new taxonomies of responsibility and hope. This chapter situates the policy against the broader debates on citizenship and the nation-state, analyses the processes of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as introducing specific taxonomies of “memory and forgetting” and provides a brief overview of the policy and some elements of the curriculum.