TITLE

Shalt/shalt not

AUTHOR(S)
Morris, James
PUB. DATE
March 1995
SOURCE
Wilson Quarterly;Spring95, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p4
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Literary Criticism
ABSTRACT
Discusses the idea of incorporating religious education into the curriculum of American public schools. Religious indoctrination in Catholic schools; Existence of a submerged religiosity in public school; Curricular status of sex in public schools; Religion's power to master lives and to alter history; Consequences of belief in world history; Objections to the notion of teaching religions in public schools.
ACCESSION #
9505053117

Tags: RELIGIOUS education;  PUBLIC schools -- Curricula

 

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