Editing Religious segregation (section)

{{short description|Separation of people according to their religion}}
[[File:Endingen Doppeltuer.jpg|thumb|right|Two separate doors (one for Jews, and one for Christians) on a house in the town of [[Endingen, Switzerland]]]]{{Discrimination sidebar|state=collapsed}}'''Religious segregation''' is the separation of people according to their [[religion]]. The term has been applied to cases of religious-based segregation which occurs as a social phenomenon, as well as segregation which arises from laws, whether they are explicit or implicit.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Religious Segregation in the Schools of Northern Ireland|last=Knox|first=H. M.|journal=British Journal of Educational Studies|volume=21|issue = 3|pages=307–312|date=October 1973|jstor = 3120328|doi=10.1080/00071005.1973.9973387}} "...[S]egregated schooling, although in theory open to all, is in practice availed of by virtually only one denomination...." Also refers to pre-[[Partition of Ireland|Partition]] religious schools which retained their exclusively Catholic demographics after Partition.</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=American Cultural Pluralism and Law|last1=Norgren|first1=Jill|last2=Nanda|first2= Serena|author2-link=Serena Nanda |isbn=978-0-275-98692-6|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2006|pages=132}}, quoting U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Anthony Kennedy]] in ''[[Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet]]'': "...[D]rawing school district lines along the religious lines of the village impermissibly involved the state in accomplishing the religious segregation."</ref>

The similar term '''religious apartheid''' has also been used for situations where people are separated based on their religion, including sociological phenomena.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/septemberweb-only/26.0b.html|title=Pakistan's Christians Demand End to 'Religious Apartheid' at Polls|work=Christianity Today|last=Akkaro|first=Anta|access-date=2008-08-18|date=2000-09-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode|title=Religion In Schools|url=http://www.teachers.tv/video/24057|series=The Big Debate|airdate=2008-01-29|minutes=0:09:29 and 0:11:52|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921052334/http://www.teachers.tv/video/24057|archive-date=2008-09-21}}, in which Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain says (at 0:09:29): "If you have separate Jewish, Catholic, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu schools, essentially you're segregating children, you're separating children" and (at 0:11:52): "It's a religious apartheid society we're creating."</ref>