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Nearly a third of religious liberty cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court addressed religion and education. Numbers that high, the problem definitely deserves consideration of international public. What were the main forces that shaped religious liberty in public education in one of its most formative periods? Did the introduction of religious liberty legal framework in public schools advance religious liberty of students as independent autonomous actors? The author discusses this cultural problem from a broad and complex perspective: both internationally recognized theory of a child's religious freedom rights and the American models of religious liberty. To cover a wide spectrum of viewpoints, she analyses a broad selection of documents, from state and NGO publications to media coverage.
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The legal basis for religious liberty - Non-legal political factors shaping religious liberty in education - Religious liberty of students in the primary and secondary level education: curriculum- and non-curriculum-related content - Personal and voluntary religious practices
About the author
Iwona Zamkowska is affiliated with the Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom. Her primary research area is the problem of religious liberty in public education in the United States of America. She is a board member of the Voice of the Martyrs Poland.
