The war that wasn't : religious conflict and compromise in the common schools of New York State, 1865-1900 /

Historians of religion and public schooling often focus on conflict and Bible Wars, pitting Catholics and Protestants against one another in palpitating narratives of the embattled development of American public schooling. The War That Wasn't tells a different story, arguing that in nineteenth-...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Justice, Benjamin, 1971-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Explaining the history of religion in public schools
  • Democracy trumps theocracy : the secular origins of the common school system in New York
  • Religion in post-bellum state and local governance
  • Politics, religion, and district schooling
  • Religious use of the district schoolhouse
  • Religious exercises in district schools
  • Local control, religion, and urban schooling
  • Religious exercises in urban schools
  • Public funds for religious schools
  • Explanations and implications.