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Informationen zum Autor Marcel Maussen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam! The Netherlands. His research focuses on governance of religious and cultural pluralism! transitions of democracy and fundamental rights and freedoms.Floris Vermeulen is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam! The Netherlands. His research focuses on the political and civic participation of immigrants! religious diversity and policies against extremism.Michael S. Merry is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam! The Netherlands. His primary areas of scholarship are ethics! political philosophy! and educational theory.Veit Bader is Emeritus Professor in Social and Political Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam! The Netherlands. He has published widely on citizenship! democratic theory! associative democracy! social inequality! governance of religious pluralism and various other topics. Zusammenfassung 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. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Non-governmental religious schools in Europe: institutional opportunities, associational freedoms, and contemporary challenges 2. The Danish free school tradition under pressure 3. Non-governmental religious schools in Germany – increasing demand by decreasing religiosity? 4. The national management of public and Catholic schools in France: moving from a loosely coupled towards an integrated system? 5. Religion and education in Ireland: growing diversity – or losing faith in the system? 6. Liberal equality and toleration for conservative religious minorities. Decreasing opportunities for religious schools in the Netherlands? 7. The continued existence of state-funded Catholics schools in Scotland 8. What can international comparisons teach us about school choice and nongovernmental schools in Europe? 9. The conundrum of religious schools in twenty-first-century Europe ...
