2025-07-082025-07-082018Llorent Bedmar, V. y Cobano-Delgado Palma, V. (2018). Religious Education in State Schools in Southern Europe: The Rights of the Parents. The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities, 24 (4), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0128/CGP/v24i04/1-10.2327-0128 (electrónico)2327-2627 (impreso)https://hdl.handle.net/11441/175094Christianity is one of the cultural and ethical cornerstones of Europe. In the European Union (EU) there is no overarching policy on religious education (RE) in the school system, although parents are guaranteed that their children will be educated in accordance with their religious beliefs. The authors use a comparative methodology to analyse the constitutions of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain in relation to different aspects of RE. Whereas the right to religious freedom for all is clearly established in these constitutions, obvious differences are revealed in the legal provisions for and attitudes towards religious education. The general separation between Church and State does not prevent the subject of religion from being taught in state schools in all these countries, with the exception of France. The freedom to choose it, the teaching load, alternative subjects, and so on vary between countriesapplication/pdf13 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ReligionSchoolSouthern EuropeChristianityConstitutionsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0128/CGP/v24i04/1-10