The Fourth R: Conflicts Over Religion in America's Public SchoolsYale University Press, 2004 M01 1 - 342 pages Contrary to popular belief, God has certainly not been kicked out of the public schools. What is banned is state-sponsored prayer, not the religious speech of the students themselves. But as news stories, political speeches, and lawsuits amply demonstrate, this approach has by no means resolved the long-standing debate over religion in public education. While some people challenge the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, with its reference to 'one nation under God,' others view school shootings and the terrorism of 9/11 as evidence that organized prayer must once again become part of the official school day. In this book, Joan DelFattore traces the evolution of school-prayer battles from the early 1800s, when children were beaten or expelled for refusing to read the King James Bible, to current disputes over prayer at public-school football games. |
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Contents
1 Crucible | 1 |
2 The Past That Never Was | 12 |
3 Religion as a Team Sport | 32 |
4 Off the Streets and Into the Courts | 52 |
5 Stalin and School Prayer | 67 |
6 The Myth of Madalyn Murray OHair | 82 |
7 Picnic with a Tiger | 106 |
8 Beware of the Leopard | 127 |
12 Perkinss Last Stand | 199 |
13 Mississippi Learning | 229 |
14 The School and the Rabbi | 255 |
15 Zen and the Art of Constitution Maintenance | 284 |
16 Deliver Us from Evil | 299 |
Advocacy Groups | 315 |
Notes | 321 |
Works Cited | 325 |
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