Abstract
The course in religious education as an elective was introduced into elementary schools in Serbia during 2002-2003, and gradually the textbooks for Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant and Islam religions have been published for individual classes for elementary and high schools in the course of several subsequent years. During 2008-2009 school year I conducted research about those textbooks with the goal to establish to what degree they reflect inter-religious and gender perspective which was underwritten in the Textbooks Law. The corpus of empirical data consists of 21 textbooks, 2100 pages total of the examined text in three languages (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian), published in a state-run company, The Institute for Textbooks and Curriculum in Belgrade. I have concluded that inter-religious and gender perspectives in selected textbooks are for the most part missing; furthermore, they rather mirror a patriarchal educational model of the community where students live, and not a religious message about spirituality, which is the main goal of a religious education.
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