Education, religion, and deliberative democracy

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Notes

1. For notable exceptions to this legalistic treatment, see the essays in Wolfe (2003).

2. The US Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right of Amish parents to remove their children from formal schooling in the 1972 case of Wisconsin v. Yoder.

3. In one British public opinion poll the authors cite, 27% of respondents opposed the expansion of religious schools overall in general, but 43% opposed expansion of Muslim, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox schools.

4. See Boyer (2005).

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Notes on contributors

Emile Lester

He is currently involved in research on the effects on religious tolerance of a compulsory course about world religions in public high schools in Modesto, CA. The book reviewed here is Marie Parker‐Jenkins, Dimitra Hartas, and Barrie A. Irving, In Good Faith: Schools, Religion, and Public Funding (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 2004), x + 243pp., £55.00 (hbk), ISBN 0‐7546‐3350‐0, £16.99 (pbk), ISBN 0‐7546‐3351‐9.