In most countries, whether secular or otherwise, education and religion are closely interlinked and no matter how hard the state tries, it can be very difficult to remove the ties between them. This book investigates the links between education, religion and politics.

1. Education, religion and politics: can they ever be disentangled? Keith Watson and William I. Ozanne 2. Education for All: where does religion come in? Katherine Marshall 3. Spatial dimensions of Christianity and education in Western European history, with legacies for the present Colin Brock 4. Contrasting policies towards (mainly) Christian education in different contexts Keith Watson 5. The state approach to Jewish and non-Jewish education in Israel Yaacov Katz 6. Religious identity and governmental education policies: the case of the Sikh community William I. Ozanne 7. Religion, education and the politics of recognition: a critique and a counter-proposal Sangeeta Kama and Biju Mathew 8. Globalisation, Political Islam and the headscarf in education, with special reference to the Turkish educational system Ismail Guven 9. The legacy of Christianity in West Africa, with special reference to Burkina Faso Philippe Ouedraogo