Forum

on Public

Policy

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VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 2006

Contents

The Critical Theory of Religion: Toward an Open Dialectic Between 1

Religious Faith and Secular Experience and Knowledge

Rudolf J. Siebert

While the People Sleep, Critics Weep 33

Frances O’Connor

Teaching About Religion in a Pluralistic Society 54

David J. Bryant

Religion, Education and the Role of Government in Medieval Universities:

Lessons Learned or Lost? 73

Kimberly Georgedes

The Case for Local and State Settlement of Questions of American Church –

State Law: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Gone, and is Still Gone 97

Michael deHaven Newsom

The American Taliban: The Social and Political Success of the Religious

Rights In the United States 139

George Lundskow

The Christian Right and American Public Education: 1980-2005 157

Fritz Detwiler

Beyond Informed Citizens: Who Are ‘The Wise’? 187

Thomas Hughson