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Does God Belong in Public Schools? Kent Greenawalt To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7863.html Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America’s leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of life, sex education, and when–or whether–students can opt out of school activities for religious reasons. "Greenawalt tackles one of the truly intractable problems encountered in applying the Constitution to public life. . . . [He] is refreshingly free of dogmatism. His judgments and conclusions are carefully drawn and nuanced, and he demonstrates how small changes in the facts can produce very different constitutional outcomes. This book will make you think clearly–and show you how."– Publishers Weekly Paper | $18.95 / £12.50 | ISBN: 978-0-691-13065-1 Cloth | 2004 | $32.95 / £21.50 | ISBN: 978-0-691-12111-6