doi:10.3390/rel16121489engCombalía, ZoilaReligion in State Schools: Questioning, Rationale and Challenges in Spanish LawART-2025-146510In recent decades, Spain has witnessed a social and political debate regarding the justification and/or appropriateness of religious education in state schools. In this paper, after providing a brief description of the current situation, I will refer to the doubts and questions that have been raised about this area of teaching, as well as its legal basis and the social function it can perform. Finally, I will address some of the aspects or difficulties involved in its provision.2025http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/16508110.3390/rel16121489http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165081oai:zaguan.unizar.es:165081Religions 16, 12 (2025), 1489 [16 pp.]byhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess