The War That Wasn't
Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865-1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10039710 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James C Carper (University of South Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1448-1449 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4485950 |
| OpenAlex | W2316303891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Public education often has been at the center of debates regarding the place of religion in American public life. As the United States has become more confessionally pluralistic and state and national governments have asserted increasing authority over public schools, these debates have become part of what James Davison Hunter has called our culture wars. National leaders and interest groups view battles over human origins, financial aid to faith-based schools or their constituents, and Then Commandments displays as part of the larger struggle to define America. Frequently influenced by current events, historians of education have often utilized warfare as an organizing theme in their accounts of the role of religion in the development of the American educational enterprise. Has historians' focus on the metaphors of combat caused us to overlook examples in the past when compromises and adjustments wrought at the local level regarding contentious matters such as religious exercises in public schools and public aid to private schools fostered peace as opposed to school wars? Benjamin Justice believes that is indeed the case in one state. In his well-researched study of religious conflict and compromise in New York in the latter years of the nineteenth century, he asserts that the early common school system embodied a principle of local, democratic decision making that often led to peaceful, if not perfect, resolutions rather than war
Compromise · Democracy · Economic Justice · Faith · Peace and conflict studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |