The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public SquareThe presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to respect religion itself--still less its free exercise in any situation that is not absolutely private. In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. In this readable, original, and provocative book, Viteritti argues that Americans must guard against debasing politics with either antireligious bigotry or religious zealotry. Drawing on politics, history, and law, he defines a new approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike. |
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Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti. PREFACE. WRITING ABOUT religion at the beginning of the twenty-first century is something like ... public schools? Or that an offshoot of the Mormon church would be.
Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti. denied its religious significance, but ... schools and the impressionable children who attend them must be afforded special protection from religious indoctrination ...
... public school property, school prayer, the use of public school facilities for religious purposes, and aid to religious schools. This brief historical overview traces the secularization of education in the United States, and explains how ...
Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti. 1. FEAR. AND. LOATHING. AS IT HAPPENS, I ... schools, as already was happening in Milwaukee and Cleveland. White liberals and Democrats had lined up against the idea in ...
... public schools. For religious conservatives, vouchers were a mechanism for channeling public dollars into sectarian schools. Again, I saw the issue differently. I understood school choice primarily as a matter of social justice.1 ...
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The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti No preview available - 2007 |