Religious Schools in Europe

Religious schools enjoy basic constitutional guarantees in Europe, and the controversy around them often surrounds issues of public financing, degrees of organizational and pedagogical autonomy, and educational practices and management. Serious tensions have emerged between those who ardently support religious schools in their various forms, and those who oppose them.This volume analyses controversies surrounding faith-based schools in a number of Western European countries. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education.