Introduction; Alexander Unser, Stéphanie Tremblay, Martin Ubani, Susie Garvis.- Part I: Key Concepts, Transitions and Challenges.- Part I Introduction: Key Concepts, Transitions and Challenges; Martin Ubani, Stéphanie Tremblay, Alexander Unser and Susie Garvis.- The (D)evolution of Religion in Public Schools in Quebec? Dia Dabby; Worldview Education in an Increasingly Post-Secular World; John Valk.- Religious Conceptions of Moral Values as Existential Signposts in Secular Ethics Education; Olof Franck; The Relationship Between Religious Beliefs and Sciences in an Educational Context; José-Luis Wolfs.- The Rise of Non-Religious Pupils and its Implications for Religion in Public Education; Alexander Unser.- The Contribution of Religion(s) to Education for Sustainable Development; Claudia Gärtner.- Religious Freedom and Sexual Citizenship: Using the Weapon of Law Against Sex Education in the United States; Claude Proeschel.- Creationism as a Persistent Obstacle to Evolution Education in the United States; Glenn Branch.- Anti-Colonisation, Religion and Education in Africa South of the Sahara; Yonah Hisbon Matemba.- Part II: Policy, Legislation and Curricula.- Part II Introduction: Policy, Legislation and Curricula; Stéphanie Tremblay, Alexander Unser, Susie Garvis and Martin Ubani.- From the implementation of laicity to the fight against Islam: effects of legal developments on the professional practices of primary school teachers in France; Laura Foy.- Religious and Citizenship Education in Belgium: A European Policy Perspective; Leni Franken and José-Luis Wolfs.- Worldview Confusion in Finnish Public Education: the Case for Religion and Worldviews in Religious Education; Martin Ubani.- Religion in Philippine Public Education: A Review of Government Attitudes and Policies; Rito Barring.- Learning to be Israeli Jews: Judaism in the Israeli state (mamlakhti) school system; Michael Gillis and Adi Sherzer.- In the Name of Secularism: The Decline of Religion in School Subjects in Quebec; Stéphanie Tremblay and Line Dubé.- Questions raised by the presence of religions in state schools in Hungary; Eszter Kodácsy-Simon.- Religious Education in Hong Kong Schools: Complexities and Multiplicity; Kerry J. Kennedy, John Chi-Kin Lee and Kuralay Bozymbekova.- School Religious Education in Colombia: Accomplice to Violence or Builder of Peace? Bonilla Morales.- Religious Education in Zambia: Critical Reflections on Policy and Practice (1964 to 2024); G. Kamanga M. Simuchimba and J. L. Ilubala-Ziwa.- Part III: School Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning.- Part III Introduction: School Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning; Alexander Unser, Susie Garvis, Martin Ubani and Stéphanie Tremblay.- Assessment and Evaluation of Religious Literacy Education; Kate Soules.- Disciplinary Learning in Norwegian Religious Education from a Plurality of Perspectives – Individual Convictions and Academic Conventions; Lars Unstad and Camilla Stabel Jørgensen.- Religious Education as a Component of Cultural Education: Potentials for Public Education; Konstantin Lindner.- How Can Educators in Secular Public Schools Address Religious Bullying? A Step-by-Step Discussion on Using Religious Literacy; W. Y. Alice Chan.- What Is Important in Life? The Centrality of Social Relationships in Building Existential Resilience in Young Children in Finnish ECEC; Katri Pardon, Lotta Uusitalo, Lassi Lavanti, Lari Launonen, and Arniika Kuusisto.- Building Resilient Classes through the Worldview of Islam; Vahdeddin Şimşek and Mualla Selçuk; Regenerative Religious Education for the World in a Time of Crisis; Patricia Hannam; Part IV: Professionalism, Leadership and Teacher Education; Part IV Introduction: Professionalism, Leadership and Teacher Education; Susie Garvis, Martin Ubani, Stéphanie Tremblay, Alexander Unser.- Spirituality in Australian early childhood education and care; Susanne Garvis, Anne Keary, and Haoran Zheng; The Gap Between Finnish Teachers’ Ideal Perception of Worldview Dialogue and Their Praxis; Elina Hirvonen and Jenni Pieniniemi; Religion in Japanese Public Education; Kiyonobu Date; Religious Education in Brazilian Public Schools: Between Pluralism and Secularism; Guilherme Borges.- Rethinking the imbalance in a resource-oriented way. Educating Religious Education teachers against the background of current challenges and development trends in the Orthodox Religious Education; Yauheniya Danilovich.- Religious Education in Greece: integration of teaching scenarios and Open Educational Resources in the teaching process; Vasiliki Mitropoulou.- The professionalization of teachers of Religious Education as a basis for the legitimacy of teaching Religious Education in public schools in Germany and England; Rob Freathy, Friedrich Schweitzer, Henrik Simojoki, and Stephen G. Parker; Concluding Remarks on Religion in Public Education: The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Martin Ubani, Susie Garvis, Alexander Unser, Stéphanie Tremblay.
