Education, Politics and Religion: Reconciling the Civil and the Sacred in Education

by Liam Gearon, Alan Sears, James Arthur

Book Overview

In recent years a number of popular books have savaged religion arguing it is a dangerous delusion that poisons human societies and relationships. This is but the most recent manifestation of a secularising agenda that has been sweeping contemporary democratic societies since the Enlightenment. This book pushes back against that agenda, examining its key assumptions and arguing that the exclusion of religious people and ideas from education and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415565480
• ISBN13: 9780415565486
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"