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Author Fraser, James W., 1944-

Title Between church and state : religion and public education in a multicultural America / James W. Fraser.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, [1999]
©1999

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  LC111 .F68 1999    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 278 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-267) and index.
Contents From holy commonwealth to the strange compromise of 1789 -- Creating an American common school and a common faith: Horace Mann and the Protestant public schools, 1789-1860 -- Who defines what is common? Roman Catholics and the common school movement, 1801-1892 -- Literacy in the African American community: church and school in slave and free communities, 1802-1902 -- Native American religion, Christian missionaries, and government schools, 1819-1926 -- Protestant, Catholic, Jew: immigration and nativism from the Blaine Amendment to the Scopes Trial, 1875-1925 -- Prayer, Bible reading, and federal money: the expanding role of Congress and the Supreme Court, 1925-1968 -- Culture wars, creationism, and the Reagan revolution, 1968-1990 -- Changing school boards, curriculum, and the Constitution, 1990- -- What's next? Prayers, vouchers, and creationism: the battle for the schools of the twenty-first century.
Subject Religion in the public schools -- United States -- History.
Religion in the public schools.
United States.
History.
Church and state -- United States -- History.
Church and state.
Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History.
Cultural pluralism.
Openbaar onderwijs.
Godsdienst.
Multiculturele samenlevingen.
ISBN 031221636X
9780312216368