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May 27, 2008: Environmentalism As The New Religion Of Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz May 2008

May 27, 2008: Environmentalism As The New Religion Of Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Environmentalism as the New Religion of Secularism “ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 2, 2008: The Hatred Of Islam, Bruce Ledewitz May 2008

May 2, 2008: The Hatred Of Islam, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

The Hatred of Islam


February 18, 2008: Anthony Kronman—Education’S End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life, Bruce Ledewitz Feb 2008

February 18, 2008: Anthony Kronman—Education’S End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Anthony Kronman—Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life


February 12, 2008 More On E.J. Dionne Jr., Bruce Ledewitz Feb 2008

February 12, 2008 More On E.J. Dionne Jr., Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

More on E.J. Dionne Jr.


January 26, 2008: Darwin Day 2008, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 2008

January 26, 2008: Darwin Day 2008, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Darwin Day 2008


Simply Put: How Diversity Benefits Whites And How Whites Can Simply Benefit Diversity, Angela Mae Kupenda Jan 2008

Simply Put: How Diversity Benefits Whites And How Whites Can Simply Benefit Diversity, Angela Mae Kupenda

Journal Articles

Although there are surmountable legal barriers to racial integration in education, fuller integration is possible. But first, whites must see how they benefit from diversity, and, second, whites must take simple steps toward integration that may, in turn, reveal to whites their desire to become more fully integrated. These two steps may help remove the limiting point to true integration.


The Problem Of Religious Learning, Marc O. Degirolami Jan 2008

The Problem Of Religious Learning, Marc O. Degirolami

Faculty Publications

The problem of religious learning is that religion—including the teaching about religion—must be separated from liberal public education, but that the two cannot be entirely separated if the aims of liberal public education are to be realized. It is a problem that has gone largely unexamined by courts, constitutional scholars, and other legal theorists. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has offered a few terse statements about the permissibility of teaching about religion in its Establishment Clause jurisprudence, and scholars frequently urge policies for or against such controversial subjects as Intelligent Design or graduation prayers, insufficient attention has been paid to …


The Political Origins Of Secular Public Education: The New York School Controversy 1840-1842, Ian C. Bartrum Jan 2008

The Political Origins Of Secular Public Education: The New York School Controversy 1840-1842, Ian C. Bartrum

Scholarly Works

As the title suggests, this article explores the historical origins of secular public education, with a particular focus on the controversy surrounding the Catholic petitions for school funding in nineteenth-century New York City. The article first examines the development of Protestant nonsectarian common schools in the northeast, then turns to the New York controversy in detail, and finally explores that controversy's legacy in state constitutions and the Supreme Court. It is particularly concerned with two ideas generated in New York: (1) Bishop John Hughes' objection to nonsectarianism as the 'sectarianism of infidelity'; and (2) New York Secretary of State John …