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The fourth R : conflicts over religion in America's public schools

Title
The fourth R : conflicts over religion in America's public schools / Joan DelFattore.
Author
DelFattore, Joan, 1946-
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.

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Description
x, 342 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Traces the evolution of school-prayer battles from the early 1800s, when children were beaten or expelled for refusing to read the King James Bible, to current disputes over prayer at public-school football games ... explores the enduring tension between people of goodwill who wish the schools to promote majoritarian beliefs, and equally well-meaning (and often religious) people who deplore any government influence in religious matters."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Religion in the public schools > United States
  • 81.71 public schools, private schools
  • Religion in the public schools
  • Religionsunterricht
  • Öffentliche Schule
  • Openbaar onderwijs
  • Godsdienstonderwijs
  • Religionsunterricht
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-329) and index.
Contents
Crucible -- The past that never was -- Religion as a team sport -- Off the streets and into the courts -- Stalin and school prayer -- The myth of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- Picnic with a tiger -- Beware of the leopard -- Full court press -- The rest is silence -- Caution! Paradigms may shift -- Perkins's last stand -- Mississippi learning -- The school and the rabbi -- Zen and the art of constitution maintenance -- Deliver us from evil.
ISBN
  • 0300102178
  • 9780300102178
LCCN
2003017364
OCLC
  • ocm52814263
  • 52814263
  • SCSB-8906464
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library