of the ‘protection for religious feelings’, perpetuate a favour toward institutionalized religions that is hardly … justifiable today from a constitutional or even logical perspective. The privilege enjoyed by stronger religious denominations …, liberal democratic societies. blasphemy, free speech, freedom of expression, religious feelings, religious sensibilities …

We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the … staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects …. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced religiosity of …