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Does God Belong in Public Schools?
Kent Greenawalt
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Description for Does God Belong in Public Schools?
Paperback. Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. Tracing the historical development of religion within public schools and considering every major Supreme Court case, this book looks at the role that religion ought to play in public schools. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 371.
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 explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of life, sex education, and when--or whether--students can opt out of school activities for religious reasons. Using these and other case studies, Greenawalt considers how to balance the country's constitutional commitment to personal freedoms and to the separation of church and state with ... Read more
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 explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of life, sex education, and when--or whether--students can opt out of school activities for religious reasons. Using these and other case studies, Greenawalt considers how to balance the country's constitutional commitment to personal freedoms and to the separation of church and state with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691130651
SKU
V9780691130651
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About Kent Greenawalt
Kent Greenawalt is University Professor teaching at the Columbia University School of Law, and a former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. He is the author of "Religious Convictions and Political Choice, Private Consciences and Public Reasons", "Fighting Words" (Princeton), and "Religion and the Constitution: Volume 1: Free Exercise and Fairness" (also Princeton).
Reviews for Does God Belong in Public Schools?
"Greenawalt tackles one of the truly intractable problems encountered in applying the Constitution to public life... [He] is refreshingly free of dogmatism. His judgments and conclusions are carefully drawn and nuanced, and he demonstrates how small changes in the facts can produce very different constitutional outcomes. This book will make you think clearly
and show you how."
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and show you how."
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