Religious Education in a Multicultural Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Emer Smyth, Merike Darmody, Maureen Lyons

   Pages 1-14

3. Religion and Schooling: The European Context

   • Silvia Avram, Jaap Dronkers

   Pages 15-36

4. Religious Education in Primary Schools in Scotland: Consensus or Uneasy Truce?

   • Sheila Riddell, Elisabet Weedon, Linda Ahlgren, Gillean McCluskey

   Pages 37-68

5. The Material and Symbolic Cultures of the Everyday: Religion in Maltese Primary Schools

   • Mary Darmanin

   Pages 69-100

6. Children’s Agency and Religious Identity in Irish Primary Schools

   • Emer Smyth, Merike Darmody, Maureen Lyons, Kathleen Lynch, Etaoine Howlett

   Pages 101-131

7. Religion and Immigration: The Acculturation Attitudes of Muslim Primary School Children Attending Flemish Schools

   • Goedroen Juchtmans, Ides Nicaise

   Pages 132-163

8. Education as Negotiation: Discovering New Patterns of Religious Identity Formation in Germany

   • Bert Roebben, Christa Dommel

   Pages 164-201

9. Conclusions

   • Emer Smyth, Merike Darmody, Maureen Lyons

   Pages 202-209

10. Back Matter

    Pages 210-215

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Drawing on a major EU-funded research project, this book examines how religious/secular beliefs are formed at school and in the family across different European countries, offering insights into key policy issues concerning the place of religion in the school system and illuminating current debates around religion and multiculturalism.

• religious beliefs
• school system
• multiculturalism
• Europe
• education
• primary school
• religion
• Religious Education
• research

"This book is very informative ... an excellent place to look for new questions." - H-Net

• Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland

  Emer Smyth, Merike Darmody

• University College Dublin, Ireland

  Maureen Lyons

Linda Ahlgren, University of Edinburgh, UK Silvia Avram, University of Essex, UK Mary Darmanin, University of Malta, Malta Merike Darmody, Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland (ESRI); Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Christa Dommel, Dortmund University, Germany Jaap Dronkers, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Etaoine Howlett, University College Cork, Ireland Goedroen Juchtmans, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin, Ireland Maureen Lyons, University College Dublin, Ireland Gillean McCluskey, University of Edinburgh, UK Ides Nicaise, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Sheila Riddell, University of Edinburgh, UK Bert Roebben, Dortmund University, Germany Emer Smyth, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Ireland; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Elisabet Weedon, University of Edinburgh, UK

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