This book focuses on the problem of religious diversity, civil dialogue, and religion education in public schools, exploring the ways in which atheists, secularists, fundamentalists, and mainstream religionists come together in the public sphere, examining how civil discourse about religion fit swithin the ideals of the American political and pedagogical systems and how religious studies education can help to foster civility and toleration.
Introduction: Civility and Education in a World of Religious Pluralism
Vincent F. Biondo, III and Andrew Fiala
1. Getting Religion Right in the
Public Schools Charles C. Haynes
2. Tolerance is Not Enough: Why Only a
Commitment to Robust Pluralism can Rescue Americas Civic Life Jedd Medefind
3. Virtue of Civility in Liberal-Democratic and Religiously Diverse
Communities Andrew Fiala
4. Religious Exclusivism and the Ethics of Diversity
Jeffrey Dueck
5. Religious Diversity, Truth and Tolerance Tim Mosteller
6.
American Religious Pluralism in Historical Perspective Martha L. Smith
Roberts
7. High Stakes Ignorance: Religion, Education, and the Unwitting
Reproduction of Bigotry Diane L. Moore
8. The First Amendment Consensus
Approach to Teaching about Religion in U.S. Public Schools: Applications and
Assessment Bruce Grelle
9. Civil Discourse or Simple Discord? Competing
Visions for Religion in the Public Schools Jonathan R. Herman
10. Relational
and Procedural Literacies in the Study of Religion Colleen Windham-Hughes
11.
From World Religions to Lived Religion: Towards a Pedagogy of Civic
Engagement in Secondary School Religious Studies Curricula Henry Goldschmidt
(with Matthew Weiner)
12. Religious Diversity and Public Education: The
Example of American Muslims Amir Hussain
13. Putting a Face to Faith Charles
C. Haynes
14. Democracy, Freedom, and Service: A Consensus Response to
Pluralism in Education Vincent F. Biondo, III
Vincent F. Biondo, III, is Associate Professor of Western Religious Traditions and Middle East Studies at Fresno State University. He is co-editor (with Richard D. Hecht) of Religion and Culture: Contemporary Practices and Perspectives. He has conducted research on Islam in the U.S. and Britain.
Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State University. His books include: Tolerance and the Ethical Life (2005), What Would Jesus Really Do? (2007), The Just War Myth (2008) and Public War, Private Conscience (2010). Fiala is co-editor of the journal Philosophy in the Contemporary World.
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