Journal Title
Title of Journal: SOPHIA
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Stan van Hooft
Publish Date: 2012/09/26
Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 531-544
Abstract
In this essay I elaborate on the theoretical framework – that of Millian liberalism – that Max Charlesworth brought to many public issues including that of the relation between education and religion I will then apply this framework to a debate in which I have been recently involved myself a debate around the provision of religious instruction in public schools In the first section I expound Charlesworth’s rejection of secularism in education in a liberal pluralist state and his defence of faithbased schooling In the second section I uncover the religious motivations behind the Victorian government’s 1950 amendments to the apparently secularist Victorian Education Act of 1872 In section three I explore the notion of secularism more fully and suggest that the struggle between those who espouse religious instruction in state schools and those who oppose it while advocating a more general form of education about religion is a symptom of a deeper tension between liberalism and communitarianism within the culture of modernist liberal states
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