Posted in Homeschool Law, International Homeschooling, tagged 1991 Education Act, Charles University, Communism, Czech Republic, Hungary, International Review of Education, Poland, Prague, SLovakia, Slovenia, Timothy Hagen, Yvona Kostelecká on March 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Record: Yvona Kostelecká, “The Legal Status of Home Education in Post-Communist Countries of Central Europe” in International Review of Education 58, no. 4 (August 2012): 445-463.
Summary: Kostelecká, on the faculty of education at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and author of a fine 2010 piece on home education in the Czech Republic, here expands her scope to five post-communist states in Central Europe: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, and Hungary.
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Posted in History of Homeschooling, Politics of homeschooling, tagged ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, American National Religion, Atheism, Bill Gothard, capitalism as freedom, civil religion, cold war, Communism, Doug Phillips, Friedrich von Hayek, George Stigler, Governmental Theism, Harry S Truman, Herbert Hoover, HSLDA, In God we trust, James Dobson, John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian economics, libertarian, military supremacy, Milton Friedman, Mount Pelerin Society, Pledge of Allegiance, Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, Soviet Union, Spiritual Weapons, T. Jeremy Gunn, Ten Commandments, Theism, war as watershed, World War II on March 8, 2010| 4 Comments »
This post reviews T. Jeremy Gunn, Spiritual Weapons: The Cold War and the Forging of an American National Religion
Gunn, director of the ACLU’s Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief (among many other assignments), here constructs a fascinating if flawed argument that the Cold War led to the unique blend of Christianity, militarism, and capitalism that is now the dominant religion in the United States. First I’ll lay out his argument and then say why I think it’s flawed. What does all of this have to do with homeschooling? I think conservative Christian homeschoolers are perhaps the purest expression of the sort of religion Gunn is chronicling here–fiercely committed to the idea that the United States is (or was and should be again) a Christian and capitalist nation, and strongly pro-military. Why are so many conservative homeschoolers like this? Here’s Gunn’s explanation:
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