Educating Believers: Religion and School Choice offers theoretical essays and empirical studies from leading researchers on religion and schooling.The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of School Choice.

Robert Maranto is the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, edits the Journal of School Choice, and serves on his local school board. With others, he has produced 14 books, including School Choice in The Real World: Lessons from Arizona Charter Schools (Westview, 2001), President Obama and Education Reform (Palgrave, 2012) and Homeschooling in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2018).

M. Danish Shakeel is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School. He coedited two special issues of the Journal of School Choice. He was identified as one of the Emerging Education Policy Scholars in US by Thomas B. Fordham Institute and American Enterprise Institute.

Introduction: Educating Believers 1.Religion and the Adoption of School Choice Policies 2. Toward Conceptual and Concrete Understanding of the Impossibility of Religiously Neutral Public Schooling 3. Religious Charter Schools: Are They Constitutionally Permissible? 4. The Contours for Researching Religion and School Choice 5. Prisoners of History: Explaining Why Statist Belgium Has School Vouchers While Liberal America Does Not 6. The Relationship Between Public and Private Schooling and Anti-Semitism 7. Chapter 7: Islamic Primary Schools in the Netherlands 8. How Cohesion Matters: Teachers and their Choice to Work at an Orthodox Protestant School 9. School and Religion in Kazakhstan: No Choice for Believers