The Bloomsbury Handbook of Schools and Religion

In: Bloomsbury Handbooks Series

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Why Look at Schools and Religion? Why Do It Globally? James W. Fraser and Jo Fraser-Pearce -- PART I: SCHOOLS, RELIGION AND THE STATE -- 2 School and Religion as a Mirror of State and Religion? Bangladesh, England, Israel and Vietnam Jo Fraser-Pearce -- 3 Schools and Religions: The Law and the Courts Costa Rica, England, France, Italy, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey Nigel Fancourt -- 4 Government Funding for Religious Schools Australia, Indonesia, Israel, the Netherlands and Singapore Ashley Rogers Berner -- PART II: THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN SCHOOL CLASSROOMS -- 5 Mindfulness in Schools England, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam William Meyer -- 6 Religion, Language and National Identity Construction in School Textbooks in South Asia Bangladesh, India and Pakistan Laraib Niaz, Kusha Anand, Farid Panjwani and Marie Lall -- 7 Religion, Heritage and the Teaching of Black History Benin, Brazil, Ghana, South Africa and the United States Amílcar A. Pereira and Jessika Rezende Souza da Silva -- 8 Religious Education in Teacher Education - About, for and in Diversity? Austria, Canada, England, India and Turkey Kerstin von Brömssen, Kristian Niemi and Alexis Stones -- 9 Debating Evolution in Context - Religion in the Biology Classroom Brazil, England, Pakistan and the United States Michael J. Reiss -- 10 When Discussion of Religion Is Not Encouraged - Don't Ask, Don't Tell Canada (Ontario and Quebec), Malawi, Sri Lanka, and the United States (California) W. Y. Alice Chan, Amarnath Amarasingam, Ashley Couture, Harsha Dulari Wijesekera, Hicham Tiflati and Yonah H. Matemba -- 11 Preparing Teachers to Develop the Religious Literacy of Learners Colombia, Greece, Malawi, Norway and Turkey Marios Koukounaras Liagkis.