Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islamic religious education in Europe : introduction / Bill Gent & Leni Franken -- Islamic religious education in Austria / Michael Kramer -- Islamic religious education in Belgium / Leni Franken & Caroline Sägesser -- Teaching 'religion-Islam' in Bulgarian public schools / Nonka Bogomilova -- Islamic religious education in Cypriot state schools / Dilek Latif -- Education about Islam in Danish state schools / Mette Buchardt & Nanna Ramsing Enemark -- Islamic religious education in England / Bill Gent, Mike Diboll & Farid Panjwani -- Islamic religious education in Finland / Tuula Sakaranaho & Inkeri Rissanen -- Islamic religious education in France / Diane-Sophie Girin -- Islamic religious education in German state schools / Eva-Maria Euchner & Kathrin Hackner -- Islamic religious education and teaching about Islam in Greece / Angeliki Ziaka & Marios Koukounaras Liagkis -- Islamic religious education in the Netherlands / Ina ter Avest, Cok Bakker & Leni Franken -- Education about Islam in Norwegian religious education / Bengt-Ove Andreassen -- Islamic religious education and education about Islam in Sweden / Jenny Berglund -- Islamic religious education in Switzerland / Hansjörg Schmid, Andreas Tunger-Zanetti & Monika Winter-Pfändler -- Comparative perspectives on IRE in Europe / Oddrun M.H. Bråten -- Islamic religious education in Europe and European recommendations as mutual challenges / Martin Rothgangel -- Teaching and learning about Islam in educational terms / Geir Skeie -- Varieties of Islamic religious education and the link with citizenship education / Siebren Miedema -- Democratic education on religion and ethics in Islamic religious education contexts / Olof Franck -- Teaching about Islam : insights from hermeneutics / Farid Panjwani -- Postcolonial and feminist perspectives in Islamic religious education / Marianne Bøe -- Islamic education within the Muslim minority-context of Europe : pedagogy, politics and future directions / Abdullah Sahin -- Religious education and social cohesion : a normative stance / François Levrau -- Compulsory, objective, critical and pluralistic teaching about religions? : incentives and disincentives under international human rights law / Jeroen TempermanIn -- Conclusion : post-secular 'Islamic religious education' in Europe : challenges, opportunities and prospects / Leni Franken.

"Against the backdrop of labour migration and the ongoing refugee crisis, the ways in which Islam is taught and engaged with in educational settings has become a major topic of contention in Europe. Recognising the need for academic engagement around the challenges and benefits of effective Islamic Religious Education (IRE), this volume offers a comparative study of curricula, teaching materials, and teacher education in fourteen European countries, and in doing so, explores local, national, and international complexities of contemporary IRE. Considering the ways in which Islam is taught and represented in state schools, public Islamic schools, and non-confessional classes, Part One of this volume includes chapters which survey the varying degrees to which fourteen European States have adopted IRE into curricula, and considers the impacts of varied teaching models on Muslim populations. Moving beyond individual countries' approaches to IRE, chapters in Part Two offer multi-disciplinary perspectives - from the hermeneutical-critical to the postcolonial - to address challenges posed by religious teachings on issues such as feminism, human rights, and citizenship, and the ways these are approached in European settings. Given its multi-faceted approach, this book will be an indispensable resource for postgraduate students, scholars, stakeholders and policymakers working at the intersections of religion, education and policy on religious education"-- Provided by publisher.