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The First Amendment and State Bans on Teachers’ Religious Garb: Analyzing the Historic Origins of Contemporary Legal Challenges in the United States. By Nathan C. Walker. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 262. $155.00 (cloth); $52.16 (digital). ISBN: 9780367188306.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 December 2020
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6 Nathan Walker provides a summary of relevant cases at pages 16–19 of the book under review. See also, Hunter-Hénin, Law, Religious Freedoms and Education in Europe. Note that the issue of teachers’ and others’ “manifestation” of religious belief in the public square is quite pressing internationally. Both individual nations and the European Court of Human Rights frequently take up legal challenges.
7 See a brief summary of national statistics and data from classrooms in Ashley Berner, “In a Polarized America, What Can We Do about Civil Disagreement?,” Brown Center Chalkboard (blog), April 10, 2020, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2020/04/10/in-a-polarized-america-what-can-we-do-about-civil-disagreement/.
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