Religion, Spirituality and State-Funded Schooling: Revisiting a Fractured Relationship with Guidance from Habermas

Habermas recommends that post-secular societies re-examine their relationship with religion to give religious and spiritual voice a place in the public sphere, a place denied by secularism. This article re-examines one aspect of that broader field, the relationship between religion or spirituality a...

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Main Author: Watson, Jacqueline (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2012
In: Journal for the Study of Spirituality
Year: 2012, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-202
Further subjects:B Liberal Democracy
B faith schools
B Religious Education
B spiritual education
B post-secular society
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