The Counter Terrorist Classroom: Countering Extremism Through (Religious) Education?

The article identifies international cases– from the United States, Europe, and the United Nations– of an emergent interface of religion, education and security. This is manifest in the uses of religion in education to counter religious extremism, the notional “counter terrorist classroom”. To avoid an over-association of extremism with religion, the article provides some historical reminders that the post-Enlightenment centuries were marked by political extremism, particularly in the phenomenon that came to be known as totalitarianism.