European Perspectives on Islamic Education and Public Schooling

Jenny Berglund is Professor of Religious Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the co-chair of the Religion and Public Schooling, International Perspectives Group at the American Academy of Religion (AARE), board member of the Swedish National Fora for Religious Education (NFR), and the Coordinator of the International Association for the History of Religions - Women Scholars Network (IAHR-WSN).

• Introduction1. `Islamic' Education between State and Community: Frameworks and New DirectionsFarid Panjwani (University College London) and Ayman Agbaria (University of Haifa)2. State-Funded Muslim Schools in Ireland: Insights and PerspectivesYucef Sai (Trinity College Dublin)3. Teaching Islam and about Islam in the Spanish Public System: The Confessional and the Cultural Approach to a Controversial HeritageElena Arigita (University of Granada)4. Public School in France: The Place of Islam and Muslim's LanguagesSamim Akgoenul (University of Strasbourg)5. Identity Development of the Two First Islamic Primary Schools in the NetherlandsBahaeddin Budak (INHolland University), Cok Bakker (Utrecht University) and Ina ter Avest (INHolland University)6. Religious Education in Italian Public Schools: What Room for Islam?Stella Coglievina (University of Insubria, Italy)7. Publicly Funded Islamic Education in Bosnia and HerzegovinaAmina Isanovic Hadziomerovic (University of Sarajevo)8. Between Old Traditions and New Diversities: Islamic Religious Education in PolandAgata S. Nalborczyk (University of Warsaw) and Konrad Pedziwiatr (Cracow University of Economics and Soedertoern University)9. Religious Education for Minorities: Perspectives from Islamic Education in Finnish SchoolsInkeri Rissanen (University of Tampere, Finland)10. The Denominational Model of Islamic Education in Germany - In the Case of HessenYasar Sarikaya and Esma OEger-Tunc (both at the University of Giessen)11. (Re)discovering One's Religion: Private Islamic Education in Lithuanian Muslim CommunitiesEgdunas Racius (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)12. The Others: Muslim Faith-based Schools in a Catholic-majority CountryMariachiara Giorda (University of Milan-Bicocca) and Alberta Giorgi (University of Coimbra)13. How Secular Educational Policies have Changed the Contents of Religious Education Curricula and Teachers' Training Programmes in Modern TurkeyMahmut Zengin (Sakarya University, Turkey)14. Character and Values Education in English Schools: What can Private Islamic Faith and State Funded Public Schools Learn from Each Other?Farah Ahmed (UCL Institute of Education)15. A `Home of Study': A UFO (Unidentified Foreign Object) in the Dutch `Pedagogic Civil Society'?Ina ter Avest (INHolland University)16. State Neutrality and Islamic Education in SwedenAilin Abdullah (Kista folkhoegskola, Sweden) and Jenny Berglund17. Traditional Islamic Education and Mainstream Schooling in Contemporary England: Grasping the Nature of theFormer and Researching the Relationship and Interaction with the LatterBill Gent (University of Warwick)18. Creating Coherence in Education for British Muslim PupilsKaramat Iqbal (University of Warwick)19. Islamic Education in Public School and Mosques in GermanyTuba Isik (Paderborn University)20. Mainstream Secular and Quran-based Islamic Education,Student Perspectives on the Relation between Two Disparate FormsJenny Berglund