Greenawalt Does God Belong in Public Schools?

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2627-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenawalt, Kent

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Schul-, Hochschul- und Prüfungsrecht, Wissenschaftsrecht, Forschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction 1

PART I: HISTORY AND PURPOSES 11

CHAPTER 1: A Brief History of American Public Schools and Religion 13

CHAPTER 2: Purposes of Public School Education 23

PART II: DEVOTIONS, CLUBS, AND TEACHING RELIGION AS TRUE 35

CHAPTER 3: Devotional Practices: Prayer and Bible Reading 37

CHAPTER 4: Moments of Silence 58

CHAPTER 5: Teaching Religious Propositions 64

CHAPTER 6: Equal Facilities 69

PART III: TEACHING ABOUT RELIGION 77

CHAPTER 7: Teaching and Religion in the Public School 79

CHAPTER 8: Teaching Natural Science I: Relation between Science and Religion 88

CHAPTER 9: Teaching Natural Science II: Evolutionism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design 101

CHAPTER 10: Teaching Natural Science III: What Amounts to Teaching Religion? 116

CHAPTER 11: History, Economics, and Literature 126

CHAPTER 12: Morals, Civics, and Comparative Religion 138

CHAPTER 13: Constitutional Constraints and Other Legal Limits 152

PART IV: RIGHTS OF STUDENTS 161

CHAPTER 14: Student Rights to Religious Freedom and to Free Speech on Religious Topics 163

CHAPTER 15: Excusing Students When They or Their Parents Object 174

Notes 189

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

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).