Religious Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum / edited by Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Kevin White.

• HerausgeberIn: Burns Coleman, Elizabeth.; White, Kevin.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed. 2011.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (155 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The creation of a secular education system was one of the great social experiments designed to break down religious intolerance within society. One element of this design was administrative, involving the creation of non-denominational schools, and another element involved a centralised curriculum. In this collection of essays, political philosophers, lawyers, sociologists, theologians and educators explore the role of state schools in promoting tolerance within 21st century multicultural, religiously pluralistic societies. How may different models of liberalism in the secular state have different out­comes in relation to religious tolerance in the education system? Does a state education system have a role in teaching values such as tolerance, and if so, how is this best achieved? How are epistemology and truth connected with tolerance? How does the ideal of a ‘value free’ secular education mask the values that the secular state teaches? The essays are written from both theoretical and practical perspectives and engage with each other directly to address one of the significant issues of our day. This is the fourth volume arising from a series of conferences on the theme of ‘Negotiating the Sacred’. Previous volumes have included /Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society; Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts; and Medicine, Religion and the Body.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White -- Religion and Education / Susan Mendus -- Religious Values and Public Education in the United States / Janice R. Russell and James T. Richardson -- Law, Tolerance and Religious Schools in Australia / Pauline Ridge -- Education for Tolerance / Peter Balint -- Educating for Tolerance / Philip Cam -- What Knowledge for Understanding? / Joel Windle -- ‘The Truth Looks Different from Here…’ / Winifred Wing Han Lamb -- Tolerance and Empathy / Padmasiri de Silva -- Can How We Come to Know the World Disconnect us from the World We Come to Know? / Ronald S. Laura and Amy K. Chapman -- For Sapiential Literacy / Anthony Mansueto -- Consolidated Bibliography / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White -- Contributors / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White -- Index / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White.