The fourth R : conflicts over religion in America's public schools / Joan DelFattore.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.Description: x, 342 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0300102178 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC 111 .D43 2004
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Contents:
Crucible -- The past that never was -- Religion as a team sport -- Off the streets and into the courts -- Stalin and school prayer -- The myth of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- Picnic with a tiger -- Beware of the leopard -- Full court press -- The rest is silence -- Caution! Paradigms may shift -- Perkins's last stand -- Mississippi learning -- The school and the rabbi -- Zen and the art of constitution maintenance -- Deliver us from evil -- Appendix. Advocacy groups.
Summary: "Traces the evolution of school-prayer battles from the early 1800s, when children were beaten or expelled for refusing to read the King James Bible, to current disputes over prayer at public-school football games ... Explores the enduring tension between people of goodwill who wish the schools to promote majoritarian beliefs, and equally well-meaning (and often religious) people who deplore any government influence in religious matters"--jacket.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection LC 111 .D43 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98628240

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-329) and index.

Crucible -- The past that never was -- Religion as a team sport -- Off the streets and into the courts -- Stalin and school prayer -- The myth of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- Picnic with a tiger -- Beware of the leopard -- Full court press -- The rest is silence -- Caution! Paradigms may shift -- Perkins's last stand -- Mississippi learning -- The school and the rabbi -- Zen and the art of constitution maintenance -- Deliver us from evil -- Appendix. Advocacy groups.

"Traces the evolution of school-prayer battles from the early 1800s, when children were beaten or expelled for refusing to read the King James Bible, to current disputes over prayer at public-school football games ... Explores the enduring tension between people of goodwill who wish the schools to promote majoritarian beliefs, and equally well-meaning (and often religious) people who deplore any government influence in religious matters"--jacket.

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