Religion, Democratic Community, and Education: Two Questions

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Abstract:

            This paper examines the mediating role that education plays between religion and democratic community. The paper is situated in the Canadian context and examines this mediation through two questions: First, what is the relationship between religion and education and what is the contribution of this relationship to and within a pluralist society?  And, second, do schools have a responsibility in developing a unified model of who the citizen is as a person?  Both questions are founded upon the premise that citizens are more than citizens, they are also persons.