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Religion, Education and the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and the American Public Life (Religion & American Culture)
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Hardcover. These essays emerged from a series of conferences conducted by the Public Religion Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School. They address the ways in which religious and educational institutions have come to define one another and American culture and identity. Editor(s): Blumhofer, Edith L. Series: Religion & American Culture S. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
This collection of provocative and timely essays addresses the ways in which religious and educational institutions have come to define one another and American culture and identity. Education in America-public and private, from the elementary to the university level-is the subject of urgent, ongoing debates. School vouchers, home schooling, prayer in the classrooms, sex education in the schools, and evolution versus creationism are just a few of the touchstones and flashpoints that have ignited a national dialogue concerning the role of religion in U.S. educational institutions. The ten major essays assembled here emerged from a series of conferences conducted by ... Read more
This collection of provocative and timely essays addresses the ways in which religious and educational institutions have come to define one another and American culture and identity. Education in America-public and private, from the elementary to the university level-is the subject of urgent, ongoing debates. School vouchers, home schooling, prayer in the classrooms, sex education in the schools, and evolution versus creationism are just a few of the touchstones and flashpoints that have ignited a national dialogue concerning the role of religion in U.S. educational institutions. The ten major essays assembled here emerged from a series of conferences conducted by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Series
Religion & American Culture S.
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817311469
SKU
V9780817311469
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99-15
About
Edith L. Blumhofer is Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals and Professor of History at Wheaton College in Illinois and former Associate Director of the Public Religion Project. Martin E. Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, and former Director of the Public Religion Project.
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