ABSTRACT
Journalists are accustomed to reading in more or less scientific journals that religion-related incidents and arguments are caused by widespread public ignorance about religion. This chapter presents a study on religious illiteracy connected to young people of school-age. The school environment has been uniformly studied by a few scholars in different European countries. It shows the result of a few studies on religious literacy by scholars in different European countries. The chapter discusses the fact that religious illiteracy has still not been investigated in depth, that there is no specific language pertaining to it and that there are not enough relative concepts. Religion illiteracy is basically confusing the information, is giving partial explanations that become partial understandings: in the UK school quality and quality teaching are to be blamed for this. Europe refers to illiteracy as if it were a lack of knowledge and a loss of memory.
