Textbook Censorship and Secular Humanism in Perspective.

Parker, Franklin

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Publication Date: 1988

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Textbook Censorship and Secular Humanism in Perspective.

Parker, Franklin

Religion and Public Education, v15 n3 p253-61 Sum 1988

Reviews the activities of the New Christian Right (NCR) related to teaching evolution in the public schools. Describes the effects of legislation and court litigation on the NCR's efforts to eliminate secular humanism from textbooks. Provides an NCR definition of secular humanism. (LS)

Descriptors: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Creationism, Evolution, Higher Education, Humanism, Legislation, Public Schools, Religion, Religious Conflict, Religious Factors, State Church Separation, Textbook Bias, Textbooks

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