Les écoles confessionnelles en Europe les raisons d’un succès

Religious schools in Europe continue to be quite popular, notwithstanding a sharp decline in religious affiliation and practice since the late 1960s. This article examines the reasons for this success. It first examines a number of recent developments that have affected the constituency of these schools and the political issues surrounding them. Second, it considers a number of well-supported empirical reasons for this choice by parents. Finally, it examines other reasons for preferring religious schools, in particular situations of segregation experienced by children. Cultural and religious minorities, this article suggests, are currently turning to religious schools because they address their children’s needs, whereas the alternatives either fail to do so, or else exclude their children altogether.