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Between church and state : religion and public education in a multicultural America

At the end of the twentieth century, the ongoing battle between religion and public education is once again a burning issue in the United States. In this book, James Fraser shows that though these battles have been going on for as long as there have been public schools, there has never been any consensus about the proper relationship between religion and public education. Looking at the most difficult question of how private issues of faith can be reconciled with the very public nature of schooling, James Fraser paints a picture of our multicultural society that takes our relationship with God into account
Print Book, English, ©1999
St. Martin's Press, New York, ©1999
History
x, 278 pages ; 23 cm
9780312216368, 9780333765081, 9780312233396, 031221636X, 0333765087, 0312233396
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From holy commonwealth to the strange compromise of 1789
Creating an American common school and a common faith: Horace Mann and the Protestant public schools, 1789-1860
Who defines what is common? Roman Catholics and the common school movement, 1801-1892
Literacy in the African American community: church and school in slave and free communities, 1802-1902
Native American religion, Christian missionaries, and government schools, 1819-1926
Protestant, Catholic, Jew: immigration and nativism from the Blaine Amendment to the Scopes Trial, 1875-1925
Prayer, Bible reading, and federal money: the expanding role of Congress and the Supreme Court, 1925-1968
Culture wars, creationism, and the Reagan revolution, 1968-1990
Changing school boards, curriculum, and the Constitution, 1990-
What's next? Prayers, vouchers, and creationism: the battle for the schools of the twenty-first century