Religious Issues and Studies
Articles and resources on religion and education, religious issues, religious studies and diversity, religious holidays, fundamentalism, and religion in schools. Historically, the public schools of America have frequently become battlefields for the cultural wars that divide our country. Clashes over issues like religious holidays, religion in the schools, and spiritual practices place students, teachers and administrators into a war zone, where the school as a place of enlightenment and learning ceases to exist. Those who believe that freedom of religion and freedom 'from' religion cannot coexist have lost sight of the mission of the school: to educate, to enlighten, to give a child the information needed to make his own decisions. Find out more by following the links on this page.
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| Imams to Be Taught French Way of Life Minister wants to build 'western Islam' through education. |
Ten Pillars of Education for Afghanistan An analysis of the negative Colonial impact on Afghanistan, and several proposals for the introduction of a post-colonial... |
| Evolution Textbooks Row Goes to Court A suburban American school board found itself in court yesterday after it tried to placate Christian fundamentalist parents... |
Saudi Textbooks 'demonise West' Saudi schoolchildren are being taught to disparage Christianity and Judaism in a textbook issued by the education ministry,... |
| Schools Cannot Be Allowed to Choose Their Own Pupils Labour can rise above the Tories by ensuring a fair admissions system. This is education week, as Tony Blair draws up the... |
Indian School Textbooks to Be Scrapped Because of Anti Muslim Bias India's new government is poised to rewrite the history taught to the nation's schoolchildren after a panel of eminent... |
| Muslim Schools Don't Cause Riots The insistence that faith schools are socially divisive has become a figleaf for Islamophobia, argues Madeleine Bunting. |
French Mps Reappraise Plan to Outlaw Veils Schools ban forms focus for discontent. The French government's plan to ban Islamic veils from schools came under sustained... |
| France to Ban Pupils' Religious Dress Outlawing headscarves at school is persecution, say Muslims. Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols are almost... |
Terrorism in the Schoolyard: The Dynamics of School Violence This article attempts to explain the how dynamics of childhood culture relate to school violence. |
| Professors fight to keep Swift on syllabus as Pakistan's Islamists target 'vulgar' classics Some of the great works of English literature could be scrapped from the syllabus of one of Pakistan's leading universities... |
Pakistan's Islamists Target English Literature Classics Some of the great works of English literature could be scrapped from the syllabus of one of Pakistan's leading universities... |
| Pakistan is Losing the Fight Against Fundamentalism Sharia law is back - and spells disaster for Musharraf's secular vision. When Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, gave... |
France Takes on New Wave of Anti-semitism in Schools Minister fears a war in Iraq could exacerbate tension between Muslim and Jewish communities. France began an effort to... |
| Afghan fundamentalists raid girls' schools The authorities in Afghanistan were last night investigating a series of well-coordinated attacks by suspected Taliban... |
Four religions' plan for multi-faith school aims to establish a trend The Church of England has thrown its weight behind an extraordinary proposal to unite Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Hindu... |