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Teaching About Religious Diversity: Policy and Practice From the Council of Europe

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Changes in religious education in Europe and more widely since the 1960s have been complex. This complexity is documented in an ongoing series of books from the REL-EDU project at the University of Vienna. Readers are referred to these volumes for discussions of the different systems of European religious education (see, for instance Rothgangel, Jackson, & Jäggle, 2014).

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Jackson, R. (2019). Teaching About Religious Diversity: Policy and Practice From the Council of Europe. In: Buchanan, M., Gellel, AM. (eds) Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6127-2_40

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