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| Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? | ||
| 作者 | Brown, Candy Gunther (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2019.05 |
| 頁次 | 440 |
| 出版者 | University of North Carolina Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://uncpress.org/ |
| 出版地 | Chapel Hill, NC, US [教堂山, 北卡羅萊納州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Candy Gunther Brown, professor of religious studies at Indiana University, is the author of several books including The Word in the World and The Healing Gods. |
| 關鍵詞 | U.S. cultural mainstream; practices; beliefs; tactics; spirituality; science; definitions; secular; religious; reestablishment of religion |
| 摘要 | Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s. While they are commonly assumed to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the equation in the context of public-school curricula. An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of “Vedic victory” or “stealth Buddhism” for public-school children. The legal challenges are fruitful cases for Brown’s analysis of the concepts of religious and secular. While notions of what makes something religious or secular are crucial to those who study religion, they have special significance in the realm of public and legal norms. They affect how people experience their lives, raise their children, and navigate educational systems. The question of religion in public education, Brown shows, is no longer a matter of jurisprudence focused largely on the establishment of a Protestant Bible or nonsectarian prayer. Instead, it now reflects an increasingly diverse American religious landscape. Reconceptualizing secularization as transparency and religious voluntarism, Brown argues for an opt-in model for public-school programs. |
| ISBN | 9781469648477 (hc); 9781469648484 (pbk); 9781469648491 (eb) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648484.001.0001 |
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| 點閱次數 | 184 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.07.27 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.07.27 |
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