Religious Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Religion And Education

   • Susan Mendus

   Pages 1-9

3. Religious Values and Public Education in the United States

   • Janice R. Russell, James T. Richardson

   Pages 11-26

4. Law, Tolerance and Religious Schools in Australia

   • Pauline Ridge

   Pages 27-39

5. Education for Tolerance

   • Peter Balint

   Pages 41-51

6. Educating for Tolerance

   • Philip Cam

   Pages 53-65

7. What Knowledge for Understanding?

   • Joel Windle

   Pages 67-83

8. ‘The Truth Looks Different from Here...’1

   • Winifred Wing Han Lamb

   Pages 85-98

9. Tolerance and Empathy

   • Padmasiri De Silva

   Pages 99-110

10. Can How We Come to Know the World Disconnect Us from the World We Come to Know?

    • Ronald S. Laura, Amy K. Chapman

    Pages 111-120

11. For Sapiential Literacy

    • Anthony Mansueto

    Pages 121-129

12. Back Matter

    Pages 131-148

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The creation of a secular education system was one of the great social experiments designed to break down religious intolerance within society. One element of this design was administrative, involving the creation of non-denominational schools, and another element involved a centralised curriculum. In this collection of essays, political philosophers, lawyers, sociologists, theologians and educators explore the role of state schools in promoting tolerance within 21st century multicultural, religiously pluralistic societies. How may different models of liberalism in the secular state have different out­comes in relation to religious tolerance in the education system? Does a state education system have a role in teaching values such as tolerance, and if so, how is this best achieved? How are epistemology and truth connected with tolerance? How does the ideal of a ‘value free’ secular education mask the values that the secular state teaches? The essays are written from both theoretical and practical perspectives and engage with each other directly to address one of the significant issues of our day. This is the fourth volume arising from a series of conferences on the theme of ‘Negotiating the Sacred’. Previous volumes have included /Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society; Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts; and Medicine, Religion and the Body.

• Monash University, Australia

  Elizabeth Burns Coleman

• Australian National University, Australia

  Kevin White

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