“…The common research concept religious education (RE) includes several categories. One is the formal, institutionalized, mandatory, state-supervised, and sometimes state-funded education in public or private schools; other categories are the non-formal, non-mandatory, but institutionalized 4 Some analyses of religion in media mention the term koranskole, but neither it nor its coverage are discussed further (Døving and Kraft 2013, Lundby 2021, Strømme 2022. 5 In Nora Stene's recent interviewbased report on female representation in mosque leadership, the general term undervisning (education) is used, as well as the specific term koranundervisning, but not koranskole (Stene 2020).…”