
Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools
Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?
Hardcover | 6 May 2019
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While notions of what makes something religious or secular are crucial to those who study religion, they have special significance in the realm of public and legal norms. They affect how people experience their lives, raise their children, and navigate educational systems. The question of religion in public education, Brown shows, is no longer a matter of jurisprudence focused largely on the establishment of a Protestant Bible or nonsectarian prayer. Instead, it now reflects an increasingly diverse American religious landscape. Reconceptualizing secularization as transparency and religious voluntarism, Brown argues for an opt-in model for public-school programs.
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Brown has extensively researched all facets of this topic and lays the evidence out for readers in a manner that is clear and easy to follow.--International Journal of Christianity & Education
In this provocative new book . . . Brown argues that a new concerted effort to reestablish religion in public schools comes not from Catholics or evangelicals, but from advocates of yoga and mindfulness. . . . Brown has written an important work of publicly engaged scholarship that documents how some advocates of mindfulness and yoga are using schools to disseminate religious traditions.--Reading Religion
Pivotal and revealing. . . . Brown is insistent on the importance of empirical findings and her descriptions of yoga and mindfulness are all evidence-based and factual.-- Oxford University Press Journals: Journal of Church and State
What's the harm in having kids do mindfulness meditation or sun salutations in homeroom? . . . . Like many of us, Brown believed that these were secular applications until she examined the historical and religious context for herself. This book is a thorough history of mindfulness and yoga in public schools, related court cases, and legal analysis that led Brown to advocate an opt-in model as a way to maintain the separation of church and state.--Tricycle
ISBN: 9781469648477
ISBN-10: 1469648474
Published: 6th May 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 456
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.5 x 3.18
Weight (kg): 0.88
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