Faith in Schools? : : Autonomy, Citizenship, and Religious Education in the Liberal State / / Ian MacMullen.

Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools? Should it fund them? What principles should govern these decisions in a society marked by religious and cultural pluralism? In Faith in Schools?, Ian MacMullen tackles these important questions through both political and educational theory,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Civic Education and Religious Schools
  • CHAPTER 1. The Civic Case against Religious Schools
  • CHAPTER 2. Civic Education and the Autonomy Problem in Political Liberalism
  • PART II. Autonomy as a Public Value
  • CHAPTER 3. Autonomy, Identity, and Choice
  • CHAPTER 4. The Value of Autonomy in a Pluralist World
  • CHAPTER 5. Autonomy as a Goal of Education Policy: Objections and Responses
  • PART III. Religious Schools and Education for Autonomy
  • CHAPTER 6. Secular Public Schools: Critiques and Responses
  • CHAPTER 7. Religious Secondary Schools as Threat to Autonomy?
  • CHAPTER 8. The Role of Religious Primary Schools
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index