A Study of the Problem of Religious Education in the Public Schools
A Study of the Problem of Religious Education in the Public Schools

Author: Thomas C. Borrelli

Publisher:

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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"This paper aims to present a brief but comprehensive review of the relation, attitudes and views of this nation's leaders, civic, educational and religious, in connection with the inclusion or religious training in the public schools. It is only fair to admit that this study will endeavor to prove that some sort of religious education, whether it be under the domain of the family, the school or the Church, is necessary for the spiritual and social well-being of our future citizens, and, consequently, of our nation. This paper cannot help by point in that direction because the fruits of research, under the light of objectivity and a dispassionate weighing of the evidence, consistently show a deep anxiety for the spiritual, moral development of our youth and a deep resolve that something must be done about this grievous omission in the development of the whole child...Furthermore, this study will, it is hoped, shed light on certain pertinent questions intrinsically bound up with the problem at hand. These questions need not be specifically enunciated in the main body of this essay, but they will be evident indirectly through a necessarily brief discussion of various aspects of the problem facing the nation. These are the questions. What do our nation's leaders say concerning religious education? Can religious training of the youth remain solely the problem of the home and Church, or must the public schools adopt the task? What is the place of religion in the public schools? Is there a real need today for religious education? What are the main objections to the inclusion of religious education in the public schools? What is the historical picture of religious education? What major plans have been proposed? Has the American principle of separation of Church and state been correctly and justly interpreted? Is character training and moral training synonymous? Is a solution favorable to all possible? What is the opinion of the Catholic Church?"--Leaves 2-4.

Separation of Church and State in the United States
Separation of Church and State in the United States

Author: Alvin W. Johnson

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1948-11-15

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0816659656

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Separation of Church and State in the United States was first published in 1948. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This book is more than a revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Johnson's Legal Status of Church-State Relationships in the United States. Besides rewriting and bringing up to date much of the original material, the authors have added a number of chapters dealing with subjects that have gained prominence in recent years: citizenship and the bearing of arms, saluting the flag, distribution of religious literature, and freedom of speech for Communists. Such recent cases as the Supreme Court decision in McCollum v. Board of Education—better known as the Champaign, Illinois, case—are discussed in some detail. School administrators will find the book of great practical value, for it deals predominantly with church-state relationships in the public schools, one of the chief areas of conflict. These conflicts include such questions as Bible readings and religious instruction in the public schools, dismissed and released time for religious education, the allowing of credit for religious instruction, public aid to sectarian schools, the wearing of religious garb, furnishing free textbooks and transportation for students in parochial schools.

Between Church and State
Between Church and State

Author: James W. Fraser

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1421420597

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A fully updated second edition of this essential look at the continuing tensions between religion and American public schools. Today, the ongoing controversy about the place—or lack of place—of religion in public schools is a burning issue in the United States. Prayer at football games, creationism in the classroom, the teaching of religion and morals, and public funding for private religious schools are just a few of the subjects over which people are skirmishing. In Between Church and State, historian and pastor James W. Fraser shows that these battles have been going on for as long as there have been public schools and argues there has never been any consensus about what the “separation of church and state” means for American society or about the proper relationship between religion and public education. Looking at the difficult question of how private issues of faith can be reconciled with the very public nature of schooling, Fraser’s classic book paints a complex picture of how a multicultural society struggles to take the deep commitments of people of faith into account—including people of many different faiths and no faith. In this fully updated second edition, Fraser tackles the culture wars, adding fresh material on current battles over public funding for private religious schools. He also addresses the development of the long-simmering evolution-creationism debate and explores the tensions surrounding a discussion of religion and the accommodation of an increasingly religiously diverse American student body. Between Church and State includes new scholarship on the role of Roger Williams and William Penn in developing early American conceptions of religious liberty. It traces the modern expansion of Catholic parochial schools and closely examines the passage of the First Amendment, changes in American Indian tribal education, the place of religion in Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois’s debates about African American schooling, and the rapid growth of Jewish day schools among a community previously known for its deep commitment to secular public education.

For the Civic Good
For the Civic Good

Author: Walter Feinberg

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0472052071

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A case for teaching classes on world religion and the Bible in public schools