Does the Public Administration of Andalusia Fulfil Its Positive Obligations Concerning Islamic Religious Education?
by David Katz Rotnitzky
Question(s) at stake
Whether the administration did enough to guarantee the defendant’s right to have her children receive Islamic religious education.
Outcome of the ruling
The Court recognized the defendant’s right to have her children receive Islamic religious education by dismissing the appeal brought by the Consejería de Educación y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía (Regional Ministry of Education and Sport of the Andalusian Regional Government).
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Official citation
High Court of Justice Granada, Judgment of 21 October 2022, no. 4399/2022 (Tribunal Superior de Justicia Granada, Sentencia de 21 de octubre de 2022, Sentencia número 4399/2022)
Topic(s)
Keywords:
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion Right of parents to ensure the religious and moral education of their children Publicly funded education in a minority religion State-funded schools Religious and life stance education Administrative obstacles Positive obligations
Tag(s):
Islamic religious education Indoctrination in a particular religion
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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).