"Teaching religion at school is not coldly describing the stained-glass windows of a cathedral, it is entering into the meaning and meanings, to understand a work of art imbued with religion."
It is in these terms that Philippe Gaudin, associate of philosophy and director of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Secularism (Irel) - attached to the Practical School of Higher Studies - sums up the teaching ambitions of the "Religious fact".
A balancing act within a secular republican school crossed by religious questions.
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"The battle for the reaffirmation of secularism promises to be long"
In November 2001, after the September 11 attacks, the Jospin government commissioned the philosopher Régis Debray to report on the teaching of this religious fact.
A reflection which marked
"the passage from a secularism of abstention, refusing to speak about religions at school, to a secularism of intelligence, integrating the study of the religious phenomenon",
explains the director of the institute , created in the wake of the report.
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