Does God Belong in Public Schools? / / Kent Greenawalt.
Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt ex...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. HISTORY AND PURPOSES
- Chapter 1. A Brief History of American Public Schools and Religion
- Chapter 2. Purposes of Public School Education
- PART II. DEVOTIONS, CLUBS, AND TEACHING RELIGION AS TRUE
- Chapter 3. Devotional Practices: Prayer and Bible Reading
- Chapter 4. Moments of Silence
- Chapter 5. Teaching Religious Propositions
- Chapter 6. Equal Facilities
- PART III. TEACHING ABOUT RELIGION
- Chapter 7. Teaching and Religion in the Public School
- Chapter 8. Teaching Natural Science I: Relation between Science and Religion
- Chapter 9. Teaching Natural Science II: Evolutionism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design
- Chapter 10. Teaching Natural Science III: What Amounts to Teaching Religion?
- Chapter 11. History, Economics, and Literature
- Chapter 12. Morals, Civics, and Comparative Religion
- Chapter 13. Constitutional Constraints and Other Legal Limits
- PART IV. RIGHTS OF STUDENTS
- Chapter 14. Student Rights to Religious Freedom and to Free Speech on Religious Topics
- Chapter 15. Excusing Students When They or Their Parents Object
- Notes
- Index