Religion in American education: A historical view

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-20

  Wright, Elliott A ^a  

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References (20)

1. Horace Mann, "Twelfth Annual Report for 1848 of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts," in Joseph L. Blau, Cornerstones of Religious Freedom in America, rev. ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), pp. 183-84.
2. See Ruth Miller Elson, Guardians of Tradition: American Schoolbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972); and John Westerhoff, McGuffey and His Readers: Piety, Morality, and Education in Nineteenth-Century America (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 1978).
3. See Ruth Miller Elson, Guardians of Tradition: American Schoolbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972); and John Westerhoff, McGuffey and His Readers: Piety, Morality, and Education in Nineteenth-Century America (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 1978).
4. Donald E. Boles, The Bible, Religion, and the Public Schools (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1961), p. 230.
5. George U. Wenner, Religious Education and the Public School: An American Problem (New York: American Tract Society, 1912), pp. 111 ff.; and Robert Michaelsen, Piety in the Public School (New York: Macmillan, 1970), p. 139.
6. George U. Wenner, Religious Education and the Public School: An American Problem (New York: American Tract Society, 1912), pp. 111 ff.; and Robert Michaelsen, Piety in the Public School (New York: Macmillan, 1970), p. 139.
7. Michaelsen, p. 170.
8. Zorach v. Clausen, 343 U.S. 306 (1952).
9. McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948).
10. F. Ernst Johnson, "Summary of Policies and Recommendations of the American Council on Education, Committee on Religion and Education," in Nicholas C. Brown, ed., The Study of Religion in Public Schools: An Appraisal (Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1958), pp. 5-6.
11. Anson Phelps, Church and State in the United States, vol. 2 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950), p. 504.
12. Walter S. Athearn et al., The Religious Education of Protestants in an American Commonwealth: The Indiana Survey of Religious Education (New York: George H. Doran, 1923), pp. 75-76, 543-51.
13. Liston Pope, "Religion and Our Schools," The American Magazine, 4 May 1952, p. 25.
14. John S. Brubacher, The Public Schools and Spiritual Values (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), p. vii.
15. Development of Moral and Spiritual Values in the Public Schools (Washington, D.C.: National Education Association and American Association of School Administrators, 1951).
16. Will Herberg, Protestant, Catholic, Jew (New York: Doubleday, 1955), p. 231.
17. Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 696 (1940); Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943); and West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
18. John F. Wilson, "Religion, Political Culture, and the Law," DePaul Law Review, vol. 41, 1944, p. 826.
19. Richard B. Direnfield, Religion in American Public Schools (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1962), p. 21.
20. John C. Hill, "Religion and the Public School: Policy and Practice in Indiana," Research Bulletin for Indiana School Boards, 14 April 1964.