Wie sieht religiöse Bildung an Schulen in Mitteleuropa aus? Das ist Thema dieses Bandes, der sich dieser Frage erstmals umfassend widmet. Er ist Teil des Projekts »Religious Education at Schools in Europe«, das in weiteren Bänden Nordeuropa, Westeuropa, Südeuropa, Südosteuropa und Osteuropa in den Blick nehmen wird. Zwölf Leitfragen strukturieren die Untersuchung, was konkrete Vergleichspunkte zwischen den Ländern Europas und dadurch eine komparative Vorgehensweise ermöglicht. Weitere Forschungsarbeiten können sich dadurch in der Auswertung auf bestimmte Aspekte des Vergleichs konzentrieren.Mit diesem ersten Band wird die Situation in Mitteleuropa (Deutschland, Österreich, Polen, Schweiz, Slowakei, Tschechien, Ungarn) von Expertinnen und Experten der jeweiligen Länder dargestellt.

Wie sieht religiose Bildung an Schulen in Mitteleuropa aus? Das ist Thema dieses Bandes, der sich dieser Frage erstmals umfassend widmet. Er ist Teil des Projekts Religious Education at Schools in Europe, das in weiteren Banden Nordeuropa, Westeuropa, Sudeuropa, Sudosteuropa und Osteuropa in den Blick nehmen wird. Zwolf Leitfragen strukturieren die Untersuchung, was konkrete Vergleichspunkte zwischen den Landern Europas und dadurch eine komparative Vorgehensweise ermoglicht. Weitere Forschungsarbeiten konnen sich dadurch in der Auswertung auf bestimmte Aspekte des Vergleichs konzentrieren.Mit diesem ersten Band wird die Situation in Mitteleuropa (Deutschland, Osterreich, Polen, Schweiz, Slowakei, Tschechien, Ungarn) von Expertinnen und Experten der jeweiligen Lander dargestellt.

The project "Religious Education at Schools in Europe" (REL-EDU), which is divided up into six volumes (Central Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe), aims to research the situation with regard to religious education in Europe. This volume outlines the organisational form of religious education in the countries of Central Europe (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland). This is done on the basis of thirteen key issues, which allows specific points of comparison between different countries in Europe. Thereby the volume focusses the comparative approach and facilitates further research into specific aspects of the comparison.

The project "Religious Education at Schools in Europe" (REL-EDU), which is divided up into six volumes (Central Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe), aims to research the situation with regard to religious education in Europe. The third volume outlines the organisational form of religious education in the countries of Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Iceland). This is done on the basis of thirteen key issues, which allows specific points of comparison between different countries in Europe. Thereby the volume focusses the comparative approach and facilitates further research into specific aspects of the comparison.

Against the backdrop of labour migration and the ongoing refugee crisis, the ways in which Islam is taught and engaged with in educational settings has become a major topic of contention in Europe. Recognising the need for academic engagement around the challenges and benefits of effective Islamic Religious Education (IRE), this volume offers a comparative study of curricula, teaching materials, and teacher education in fourteen European countries, and in doing so, explores local, national, and international complexities of contemporary IRE. Considering the ways in which Islam is taught and represented in state schools, public Islamic schools, and non-confessional classes, Part One of this volume includes chapters which survey the varying degrees to which fourteen European States have adopted IRE into curricula, and considers the impacts of varied teaching models on Muslim populations. Moving beyond individual countries’ approaches to IRE, chapters in Part Two offer multi-disciplinary perspectives – from the hermeneutical-critical to the postcolonial – to address challenges posed by religious teachings on issues such as feminism, human rights, and citizenship, and the ways these are approached in European settings. Given its multi-faceted approach, this book will be an indispensable resource for postgraduate students, scholars, stakeholders and policymakers working at the intersections of religion, education and policy on religious education.