The Open Access volume Minorities, Migration, and Religion: New Perspectives on Religious Education in Faith Communities and Schools in Europe (edited by Anders Aschim, Jenny Berglund, Marta Bivand Erdal, and Friedrich Schweitzer) summarizes findings of the Norwegian FAITHED project (Non-formal faith education, the public school, and religious minorities in Norway) for an international public. The book is published by the German publisher Waxmann Verlag in the distinguished series Religious Diversity and Education in Europe,
Contributions from Swedish, Danish, Polish, German, and Scottish contexts add a comparative European dimension to the Norwegian data from the FAITHED fieldwork. Broadening the project's focus on Islam and Catholicism, the book also includes a chapter on Jewish religious education in Norway, written by Gunnar Haaland.
International contributors include Konrad Pędziwiatr (Poland) and the members of the project's Advisory Board: Jenny Berglund (Sweden), Roisin Coll (Scotland), Lene Kühle (Denmark), Dominic Pasura (Scotland), and Friedrich Schweitzer (Germany).
The book is organized in an introduction, four thematic sections, and a final reflection on conclusions and perspectives for future research. In the first section, a single chapter discusses the interplay of migration, minorities, and religion in European societies characterized by migration-driven diversification. Next, six chapters display different aspects of education in religious communities. Third, four chapters discuss matters of religious diversity in school contexts, while the four chapters of the last thematic section, "Looking across", in various ways bring the two educational contexts together.
