Religious Liberty in the Educational System of the United States
From the 1980s to the Present
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Beschreibung
What were the main forces that shaped religious liberty in the U.S. public education from the 1980s onwards? Did the historic legal framework of religious liberty contribute to the advancement of students’ religious rights? The author of the book discusses these issues from a broad and complex perspective considering a wide spectrum of viewpoints.
Nearly a third of religious liberty cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court addressed religion and education. Numbers that high, the problem definitely deserves consideration of international public. What were the main forces that shaped religious liberty in public education in one of its most formative periods? Did the introduction of religious liberty legal framework in public schools advance religious liberty of students as independent autonomous actors? The author discusses this cultural problem from a broad and complex perspective: both internationally recognized theory of a child’s religious freedom rights and the American models of religious liberty. To cover a wide spectrum of viewpoints, she analyses a broad selection of documents, from state and NGO publications to media coverage.
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Iwona Zamkowska
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