Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America

A fully updated second edition of this essential look at the continuing tensions between religion and American public schools.

Today, the ongoing controversy about the place—or lack of place—of religion in public schools is a burning issue in the United States. Prayer at football games, creationism in the classroom, the teaching of religion and morals, and public funding for private religious schools are just a few of the subjects over which people are skirmishing. In Between Church and Stat...