Between church and state
Subtitle: religion and public education in a multicultural America
By: James W. Fraser.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780312216368
Subjects: Religion in the public schools -- United States -- History; Church and state -- United States -- History; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States -- History
Description: "At the end of the twentieth century, the ongoing battle between religion and public education is once again a burning issue in the United States. In this book, James Fraser shows that though these battles have been going on for as long as there have been public schools, there has never been any consensus about the proper relationship between religion and public education.

Looking at the most difficult question of how private issues of faith can be reconciled with the very public nature of schooling, James Fraser paints a picture of our multicultural society that takes our relationship with God into account."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From holy commonwealth to the strange compromise of 1789; title: Creating an American common school and a common faith: Horace Mann and the Protestant public schools, 1789-1860; title: Who defines what is common? Roman Catholics and the common school movement, 1801-1892; title: Literacy in the African American community: church and school in slave and free communities, 1802-1902; title: Native American religion, Christian missionaries, and government schools, 1819-1926; title: Protestant, Catholic, Jew: immigration and nativism from the Blaine Amendment to the Scopes Trial, 1875-1925; title: Prayer, bible reading, and federal money: the expanding role of Congress and the Supreme Court, 1925-1968; title: Culture wars, creationism, and the Reagan revolution, 1968-1990; title: Changing school boards, curriculum, and the Constitution, 1990-; title: What's next? Prayers, vouchers, and creationism: the battle for the schools of the Twenty-First century; title: For further reading