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AuthorGreenawalt, Kent, 1936-TitleDoes God belong in public schools? / Kent Greenawalt.PublishedPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.FormatBook
Descriptionx, 261 p. ; 24 cm.

LinkPublisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin051/2004045779.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ContentsA brief history of American public schools and religion -- Purposes of public school education -- Devotional practices : prayer and Bible reading -- Moments of silence -- Teaching religious propositions -- Equal facilities -- Teaching and religion in the public school -- Teaching natural science I : relation between science and religion -- Teaching natural science II : evolutionism, creationism, and intelligent design -- Teaching natural science III : what amounts to teaching religion? -- History, economics, and literature -- Morals, civics, and comparative religion -- Constitutional constraints and other legal limits -- Student rights to religious freedom and to free speech on religious topics -- Excusing students when they or their parents object.
ISBN0691121117 (alk. paper)9780691121116 (alk. paper)9780691130651 (pbk.)0691130655 (pbk.)SubjectReligion in the public schools -- United States.
Religion in the public schools -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Education and state -- United States.

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