Educaţia religioasă în câteva ţări europene
Religious Education in Some European Countries

Summary/Abstract: In analyzing the education system in several European countries the author shows that: (a) European practices and policies in the field of religious education formally include many or most of the attributes of religious education in Romania; (b) the existing solutions reflect historical arrangements, as well as recent developments which aim at making religious education compatible with general conceptions concerning the education of children; (c) religious education policies in Western Europe have constantly adjusted and have been subordinated to the higher-level principles of freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as well as to the higher interest of the child; (d) while in a sizeable part of Western Europe the dominant trends resulted in bringing religious education closer to the goals and strategies of the non- and/or multi-confessional solution, the Romanian trend has been to give confessional education an increasingly parochial dimension. This is one of the reasons that explain why the system of confessional education in this country is still quite prone to abuse.

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