Between church and state religion and public education in a multicultural America /
| Main Author: | Fraser, James W., 1944- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[1999]
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| Physical Description: |
x, 278 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.