03433oam 2200685I 450 991078495250332120230725023616.01-136-93523-11-136-93524-X1-282-65608-297866126560880-203-84657-510.4324/9780203846575 (CKB)2670000000029603(EBL)547327(OCoLC)646788492(SSID)ssj0000416520(PQKBManifestationID)11322750(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416520(PQKBWorkID)10441405(PQKB)11382062(MiAaPQ)EBC547327(Au-PeEL)EBL547327(CaPaEBR)ebr10402317(CaONFJC)MIL265608(OCoLC)650076756(EXLCZ)99267000000002960320180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEducation, politics and religion reconciling the civil and the sacred in education /James Arthur, Liam Gearon and Alan SearsNew York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (174 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-56549-9 0-415-56548-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 citizenship5 Religious faith, citizenship education and the public square6 Citizenship education as transformation: The possibilities of religious approaches to education; Afterword; Bibliography; IndexIn 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 trPostmodernism and higher educationUnited StatesChristiansPolitical activityUnited StatesChurch and collegeUnited StatesPostmodernism and higher educationChristiansPolitical activityChurch and college370.11Arthur James.348301Gearon Liam802017Sears Alan1524387MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784952503321Education, politics and religion3765196UNINA