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The fourth R : conflicts over religion in America's public schools / Joan DelFattore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DelFattore, Joan, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion in the public schools--United States.
- Religion in the public schools.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 342 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- In this lively 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.
- Contents:
- Crucible
- The past that never was
- Religion as a team sport
- Off the streets and into the courts
- Stalin and school prayer
- The myth of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- Picnic with a tiger
- Beware of the leopard
- Full court press
- The rest is silence
- Caution! Paradigms may shift
- Perkins's last stand
- Mississippi learning
- The school and the rabbi
- Zen and the art of constitution maintenance
- Deliver us from evil
- Appendix. Advocacy groups.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300102178
- OCLC:
- 52814263
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