Overcoming Religious Illiteracy - 9781403963499

As a teacher at Harvard Divinity School and a secondary school teacher at Phillips Academy, Diane Moore is ideally suited to address the reasons why the academic study of religion must be incorporated into our secondary school curriculum in the US. Multicultural trends in education have helped to advance the understanding of America's diversity and heritage, but the historic hegemony of Protestant Christianity coupled with the perceived constitutional prohibition against teaching about religion in public schools has served to foster a climate of religious illiteracy that is both dangerous and intellectually debilitating. The aim of this accessible volume is to present a strong argument in support of including the academic study of religion in public school from a comparative and multicultural perspective.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: Overcoming Religious Illiteracy
• Sottotitolo: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education
• Lingua: English
• Autore:  Moore Diane L.
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Collana: Palgrave Macmillan (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 02 Ottobre '07
• Genere: EDUCATION
• Argomenti :  Religion Study and teaching (Secondary Religious tolerance United States Religion in the public schools
• Pagine: 226
• Dimensioni mm: 203 x 139 x 12
• ISBN-10: 1403963495
• EAN-13: 9781403963499