Abstract
I close this book with a brief review of a report published by the First Amendment Center entitled “Learning about World Religions in Public Schools.”1 Colleagues at the First Amendment Center have worked tirelessly over the past decade or more to help advance religious literacy and democratic citizenship in American education. All of us who care about these issues owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude. Though my approach to how to teach about religion in the schools differs in some significant ways to the one advanced by the First Amendment Center, our ultimate goals are quite similar and I offer these reflections in the spirit of promoting public discourse about how best to advance our mutually shared aims.
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Emile Lester and Patrick S. Roberts, “Learning About World Religions in Public Schools: The Impact on Student Attitudes and Community Acceptance in Modesto, California,” (Nashville: First Amendment Center, 2006). Available at www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=16863 accessed December 3, 2006.
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Moore, D.L. (2007). Epilogue. In: Overcoming Religious Illiteracy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607002_9
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