OBLIGATORYJNY SYSTEM NAUCZANIA RELIGII W SZKOŁACH PUBLICZNYCH W ŚWIETLE WYBRANYCH KONKORDATÓW

The subject of this article is an attempt to analyse the religion teaching in the mandatory form guaranteed by concordats from the Third Reich (1933), Bavaria (1924) − amended in 1968 and 1974, Lower Saxony (1965), Sarah (1985), Austria (1962 ) and Portugal (1940). Concordat guarantees protecting the right of the Catholic Church to teach religion in public schools in these countries are expressed primarily in the field of religion education, its time dimension, in preparing their own educational programs, providing religion teachers a rightful position like those teachers of other subjects, and finally in the supervision on the teaching of religion in schools.