Overview
- A comparative study discussing religious instruction in state schools
- Describes the diversity between states and analyses the legislative basis of religious instruction in the various countries
Part of the book series: Yearbook of the European Association for Education Law and Policy (YELP, volume 6)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Europe is going through a sort of "social revolution" with the influence of the church and religious instruction in state schools being open to discussion. Critics claim that providing religious instruction in state schools violates the constitutional separation of church and state. And yet, despite an alleged separation of church and state, in most countries, the church continues to play a considerable public role, especially in education.
This publication is a compilation of studies on religious instruction in state schools. It describes the diversity between states and analyzes the legislative basis of religious instruction in various countries. Whereas in some countries, religious instruction in state schools is optional or compulsory with the possibility to opt out, in other countries religious instruction is banned from state schools.
The comparative analyses in this book will be of great value to researchers in educational research and to educational policymakers.
The chapters are written in the English, French, German, Italian and Spanish language.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religious Education in Public Schools: Study of Comparative Law
Editors: José Luis Martínez López-Muñiz, Jan Groof, Gracienne Lauwers
Series Title: Yearbook of the European Association for Education Law and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3863-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3862-4Published: 23 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6983-2Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3863-1Published: 17 January 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 310
Topics: Education, general, International and Comparative Education