1. Schools today: shortage of teachers or shortage of meaning?

   • Cecilia Braslavsky

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 129 - 131

2. Where have all the teachers gone? The silent crisis

   • Richard Halperin
   • Bill Ratteree

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 138

3. An interpretation of global trends from the perspective of the Latin-American multicultural society

   • Juan Esteban Belderrain

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 147

4. State-religious education in Israel: between tradition and modernity

   • Zehavit Gross

   OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 164

5. Religion and education in Pakistan: an overview

   • Rukhsana Zia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 178

6. Teaching about religion in the French education system

   • Mireille Estivalèzes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 190

7. The vicissitudes of secular theology in the Russian Federation

   • Alexander Soldatov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 198

8. Education for intercultural and interfaith dialogue: a new initiative by the Council of Europe

   • James Wimberley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 209

9. Teaching time allocated to religious education in official timetables

   • Jean-François Rivard
   • Massimo Amadio

   OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 217

10. Peace education in a post-conflict environment: the case of Sierra Leone

    • Diane Bretherton
    • Jane Weston
    • Vic Zbar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 230

11. Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)

    • Swami Prabhananda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 245