Christian Privilege in U.S. Education: Legacies and Current Issues

by Avner Segall and Kevin J. Burke

Book Overview

Using critical curriculum theory as its lens, this book explores the relationship between religion-specifically, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethos underlying it-and secular public education in the United States. Despite various 20th-century court decisions separating religion and education, the authors challenge that religion is in fact absent from public education, suggesting instead that it is in fact very much embedded in current public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138649945
• ISBN13: 9781138649941
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"