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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"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 ... explores the enduring tension between people of goodwill who wish the schools to promote majoritarian beliefs, and equally well-meaning (and often religious) people who deplore any government influence in religious matters."--Jacket....
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate cross-country look at the new debate over religion in the public schools...Wertheimer's fascinating investigation, which includes a return to her rural Ohio school, which once ran weekly Christian Bible classes, reveals a public education system struggling to find the right path forward and offers a promising roadmap for raising a new generation of religiously literate Americans." --
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Kent Greenawalt is University Professor teaching at the Columbia University School of Law, and a former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. He is the author of Religious Convictions and Political Choice, Private Consciences and Public Reasons, Fighting Words (Princeton), and Religion and the Constitution: Volume 1: Free Exercise and Fairness (also Princeton).
Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but...
9) The Bible, the school, and the Constitution: the clash that shaped the modern church-state doctrine
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
13) God's not dead 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Describes the historical context of the Engel versus Vitale Supreme Court case, detailing the claims made by both sides as well as the outcome, and including excerpts from the Supreme Court justices' decisions and relevant sidebars"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, American children who were Jehovah's Witnesses refused to salute the flag because it conflicted with their religion. In Saluting the Flag: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, award-winning author Susan Dudley Gold delves into the issues behind the Supreme Court case. An impressive victory for the First Amendment, especially in time of war, the decision established that government cannot compel Americans to participate...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to their high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design. This idea states that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent...
