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010 _a 2003017364
020 _a0300102178 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 _a(Sirsi) i9780300102178
035 _a(Sirsi) i9780300102178
035 _a(Sirsi) i9780300102178
035 _z(Sirsi) 163024
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050 0 0 _aLC 111
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090 _aLC 111 .D43 2004
100 1 _aDelFattore, Joan,
_d1946-
245 1 4 _aThe fourth R :
_bconflicts over religion in America's public schools /
_cJoan DelFattore.
260 _aNew Haven :
_bYale University Press,
_cc2004.
300 _ax, 342 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-329) and index.
505 0 _aCrucible -- 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.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aReligion in the public schools
_zUnited States.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003017364 .html
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