15 Facts About Religious education

In secular usage, religious education is the teaching of a particular religion and its varied aspects: its beliefs, doctrines, rituals, customs, rites, and personal roles.

In Western and secular culture, religious education implies a type of education which is largely separate from academia, and which regards religious belief as a fundamental tenet and operating modality, as well as a prerequisite for attendance.

In other contexts, such as the United Kingdom, an 'open' religious education has emerged from Christian confessionalism that it is intended to promote religious literacy without imparting a particular religious perspective.

In traditional Muslim Religious education, children are taught to read and sometimes speak Arabic and memorize the major suras of the Qur'an.

Jewish religious education mainly takes two forms: firstly, education regarding the main tenets of the faith and secondly, education regarding the laws and customs of the religion.

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Religious education usually occurs in scheduled sessions in private homes.

Since religious education is a compulsory subject, pupils who do not belong to any religious group are taught Ethics.

Religious education was first introduced as a mandatory activity in Italy during the fascist regime, following the 1929 Lateran Treaty, but in 1984 it became optional.

Some believe that religious education should be of exclusive competence of families and churches, therefore are opposed to religious education in public schools.

The content of religious education was prepared by the state, which ensured that children were first exposed to accepted interpretations of Islam before being exposed to other religious teachings.

State school religious education is non-proselytising and covers a variety of faiths, although the legislation requires it to include more Christian content than other faiths.

In England and Wales, the content of the syllabus for state schools is agreed on by local education authorities, with the ratification of a Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education comprising members of different religious groups, teachers and local councillors.

Quebec abolished religious education funded by the state through the Education Act, 1998, which took effect on July 1 of that same year, again after a constitutional amendment.

Some families believe supplementary religious education is inadequate, and send their children to private religious schools, called parochial schools when Catholic, day schools or yeshivas when Jewish.

Under US law, religious education is forbidden in public schools, except from a neutral, academic perspective.