Curriculum and the Culture Wars offers a fresh perspective on perennial debates about the role of religion in public schools, focusing on the intersection of religion and curriculum. This debate has been renewed in part due to the growth of elective Bible courses in public schools in many parts of the country. The first half of the book presents new scholarship on the use of the Bible in schools, including a historical analysis of what the Founders had to say about the use of the Bible in public education, a more current assessment of the politics behind the elective Bible class movement in the early twenty-first century, and a critique of such educational programs from constitutional and pedagogical perspectives. This edited volume also offers new insights into long-standing battles that pit religious and secular advocates against one another in the areas of evolution and sex education and considers whether school choice programs that would allow parents the right to send their children to sectarian schools are an affront to promoting the goals of a liberal democracy.

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Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Year

2012

ISBN

9781453909423

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Civics & Citizenship

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction (Melissa Deckman)
Chapter 2. A Handbook for Republican Citizenship? The American Founders Debate the Bible’s Use in Schools (Daniel L. Dreisbach)
Chapter 3. Religious Literacy in Public Schools: Teaching the Bible in America’s Classrooms (Melissa Deckman)
Chapter 4. Studying the Bible in Public Schools: Sounds Good in Theory, But … (The Rev. Barry W. Lynn)
Chapter 5. Teaching About the Biblein Public Schools: A Religious Studies Framework (Diane L. Moore)
Chapter 6. American Public Opinionand the “Culture War” Politics of Teaching Human Evolution (George F. Bishop, Misook Gwon, and Stephen T. Mockabee)
Chapter 7. Below the (Bible) Belt: Religion and Sexuality Education in American Public Schools (Mark Carl Rom)
Chapter 8. State versus Parental Control of Education (Kenneth Godwin & Richard S. Ruderman)
Chapter 9. Conclusion (Joseph Prud’homme)
About the Authors
Index