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1 online resource |
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Routledge research in education ; 73 |
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Routledge research in education ; 73.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Commitment, Character, and Citizenship; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The Case for Religious Education in Liberal Democracy; 1 An Inquiry into the Justification for Full-Time Religious Schools in the Liberal Democratic State; 2 State Financial Support for Religious Schools: Issues and Models; 3 Between Memory and Vision: Schools as Communities of Meaning; Part II Unity versus Diversity in Liberal Democracy; 4 Religion and Citizenship: The Prophetic Tradition and Public Reason; 5 Religious Schooling and the Formation of Character |
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6 Maximal Citizenship Education and Interreligious Education in Common Schools7 Judaism and Democracy: The Private Domain and Public Responsibility; 8 Why Did You Not Tell Me about This? Religion as a Challenge to Faith Schools; Part III Spirituality and Morality in Religious and Democratic Education; 9 Religion, Character, and Spirituality: Their Conceptual Relations and Educational Implications; 10 Religion, Reason, and Experience in Public Education; 11 Competing Conceptions of Authenticity: Consequences for Religious Education in an Open Society |
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12 Democratic Schooling and the Demands of ReligionPart IV Opening Up Religious Education for Democracy; 13 Teaching Islam in Israel: On the Absence of Unifying Goals and a Collective Community; 14 Between Traditional Interpretation and Biblical Criticism:A Case Study of Bible Teaching in Non-Orthodox Jewish Israeli High Schools; 15 The Contribution of Religious Education to Democratic Culture: Challenges and Opportunities; 16 Constructive, Critical, and Mutual Interfaith Religious Education for Public Living: A Christian View; Contributors; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
As liberal democracies include increasingly diverse and multifaceted populations, the longstanding debate about the role of the state in religious education and the place of religion in public life seems imperative now more than ever. The maintenance of religious schools and the planning of religious education curricula raise a profound challenge. Too much state supervision can be conceived as interference in religious freedom and as a confinement of the right to cultural liberty. Too little supervision can be seen as neglecting the development of the liberal values required to live and wor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion in the public schools.
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Religion and state.
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Religious education.
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Democracy.
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RELIGION -- Education.
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Democracy
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Religion and state
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Religion in the public schools
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Religious education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alexander, Hanan A., 1953-
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Agbaria, Ayman K.
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| LC no. |
2011042228 |
| ISBN |
9781136339004 |
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1136339000 |
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