The school : a most challenging domain in the complex partnership between religion, education and the law - a few reflections / Jan de Groof. School religious distinctiveness : the consequences for parents, pupils and teachers / Charles L. Glenn -- Religious freedom and free choice of schools / Zdenko Kodelja -- Religious education versus secularism? : the context of private and public schools / José Luis Martínez López-Muñiz -- The United States national agenda on challeneges/conflicts of Catholic schools vis-à-vis the state / Sean O. Sheridan -- The place of faith in Catholic higher education in the United States of America / John Garvey -- Parental rights in education from the American and European case law perspective / Melissa Moschella ; Marta Ponikowska -- Education, religion and politics : the case of Greece / John Panaretos -- State and church : education in Hungary (the content of a human right and the role of external instruments) / Balázs Szabolcs Gerencsér -- Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands / Jaap Dronkers -- Recommendations for maintaining the Christian identity of Christian schools in the European Union / William Jeynes -- Religious rights as an element of school choice in Russia : contemporary contours of law, policy and court practice / Maria Smirnova -- The relationship between different religious confessions and public schools in Russia : equality or inequality? / Vitaly Matveev ; Artemy Rozhkov -- Freedom of religion or belief in education in Estonia / Merilin Kiviorg ; Jüri Ginter ; Ene-Silvia Sarv -- Religious education and the secular state : an overview of Latin America / Nina Ranieri ; Angela Limongi ; Danilo Rossi ; Elisa Lucena ; Meire Cristina Souza ; Michel K. Lutaif -- Home schooling Brazil : a new judicial outlook and tradition / Rubens Beçak ; Luis Felipe Cirino -- Religion and education in South Africa : an introduction / Johan Beckmann -- The dissemination of religious knowledge in South African public schools / Georgia Alida du Plessis -- The role of Catholic schools in Australia in educating for human rights and social justice : an overview / Sally Varnahm -- The school : a most challenging domain in the complex partnership between religion, education and the law - a few reflections / Jan de Groof.
Summary:
This book provides an encompassing analysis of the position of religion in education in several countries across the globe. It first analyses the wider issues and complexities surrounding the position of freedom of religion or belief in education systems and the need to respect, protect and promote the religious or (non-religious) beliefs of all those involved and participating in education. Various specific themes are constantly at the foreground, namely: the religious distinctiveness of private schools, the protection of religious and belief diversity in education, the protection of parental rights and religious freedoms, the protection of children's rights and religious freedoms and managing the dissemination of religious knowledge in public schools. Secondly, this book provides important case studies explaining the various approaches pertaining to the reconciliation of law and state, religion and education and secularism and diversity that exist in the world. A more encyclopedic approach is followed and provides insights, through the country case studies, into the contemporary issues surrounding religious and non-religious schools in these selected jurisdictions.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.