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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799970603321

Autore

Arthur James.

Titolo

Education, politics and religion : reconciling the civil and the sacred in education / / James Arthur, Liam Gearon and Alan Sears

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-93523-1

1-136-93524-X

1-282-65608-2

9786612656088

0-203-84657-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GearonLiam

SearsAlan

Disciplina

370.11

Soggetti

Postmodernism and higher education - United States

Christians - Political activity - United States

Church and college - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: An argument for enchantment; Part I: Educational, political and theological theory; 1 Christianity, citizenship and identity; 2 Republican theory, citizenship education and religion; Part II: Challenges of historical and philosophical interpretation; 3 Christianity, citizenship and education: From antiquity to Enlightenment and its aftermath; 4 Religion, education and extremism: From totalitarian democracy to liberal autocracy; Part III: Religious approaches to civic engagement and education for citizenship

5 Religious faith, citizenship education and the public square6 Citizenship education as transformation: The possibilities of religious approaches to education; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years a number of popular books have savaged religion arguing it is a dangerous delusion that poisons human societies and relationships. This is but the most recent manifestation of a secularising agenda that has been sweeping contemporary democratic



societies since the Enlightenment. This book pushes back against that agenda, examining its key assumptions and arguing that the exclusion of religious people and ideas from education and the public square is both undemocratic and unwise.For the most part the book draws arguments and examples from Christianity, the religious tr