Cooperation and Fragmentation of Muslim Governance in Education: Implementing Islamic Religious Education
by David Katz Rotnitzky
Question(s) at stake
Whether the administration of a public school protected the right of parents to request that their children receive Islamic religious education.
Outcome of the ruling
The Court rejected the appellant’s request for recognition of her right to have her children receive Islamic religious education in the public school, in accordance with Law 26/1992, due to the lack of designated teachers for Islamic education.
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Official citation
High Court of Justice La Rioja, Judgment of 23 February 2017, no. 63/2017 (Tribunal Superior de Justicia La Rioja, Sentencia de 23 de febrero de 2017, Sentencia número 63/2017)
Topic(s)
Keywords:
Right of parents to ensure the religious and moral education of their children Publicly funded education in a minority religion Freedom of thought, conscience and religion State-funded schools
Tag(s):
Islamic religious education Indoctrination in a particular religion
Bibliographic information
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David Katz Rotnitzky (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Law and Anthropology, Germany)
David Katz is a PhD Candidate in the Law & Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He holds a bachelor’s degree in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and was awarded the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization by the European Inter University Centre in Venice (Italy), for which he spent a semester at the UNESCO Chair on Education for Human Rights, Democracy and Peace at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). In his master’s thesis, “Deconstructing the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Human Rights: A Multidisciplinary Approach on Antisemitism towards the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki”, he analysed the right to freedom of religion and belief and the correlation between the inherent antisemitism in some spheres of Greek society and the limits on the enjoyment of religious rights by the Jewish community of Thessaloniki. His current research falls within the project “Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe” (CUREDI).