Civility, Religious Pluralism, and Education

This book focuses on the problem of religious diversity, civil dialogue, and religion education in public schools, exploring the ways in which atheists, secularists, fundamentalists, and mainstream religionists come together in the public sphere, examining how civil discourse about religion fits within the ideals of the American political and pedagogical systems and how religious studies education can help to foster civility and toleration.

Vincent F. Biondo III is Associate Professor of Western Religious Traditions and Middle East Studies at Fresno State University. He is co-editor (with Richard D. Hecht) of Religion and Culture: Contemporary Practices and Perspectives. He has conducted research on Islam in the U.S. and Britain.

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State University. His books include: Tolerance and the Ethical Life (2005), What Would Jesus Really Do? (2007), The Just War Myth (2008) and Public War, Private Conscience (2010). Fiala is co-editor of the journal Philosophy in the Contemporary World.