Doug Bashford
2011-06-08 22:46:48 UTC
Environmentalism is "anti-American and anti-Christian."
That'a why an advanced placment environmental science
textbook was rejected by the The Texas Board of
Indoctrination, which chooses America's high school
textbooks.
details:
The Texas Board of Indoctrination
also:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: March 12, 2010
AUSTIN, Tex. After three days of turbulent meetings, the
Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies
curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and
economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American
capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers commitment to
a purely secular government and presenting Republican
political philosophies in a more positive light.
The vote was 10 to 5 along party lines, with all the
Republicans on the board voting for it.
The board, whose members are elected, has influence beyond
Texas because the state is one of the largest buyers of
textbooks. In the digital age, however, that influence has
diminished as technological advances have made it possible
for publishers to tailor books to individual states.
In recent years, board members have been locked in an
ideological battle between a bloc of conservatives who
question Darwins theory of evolution and believe the
Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles, and a
handful of Democrats and moderate Republicans who have
fought to preserve the teaching of Darwinism and the
separation of church and state. ...........snip
...But rarely in recent history has a group of
conservative board members left such a mark on a social
studies curriculum. ...........snip
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also:
The rise of religious fundamentalism - Emerson - Cited by 33
http://www.ntpu.edu.tw/~social/upload/P_1020081127150648.pdf
and
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20269196/Emerson-MO-and-Hartman-The-Rise-of-Religious-Fundamentalism
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 32, August 2006
Abstract:
Religious fundamentalism has risen to worldwide prominence
since the 1970s. We review research on fundamentalist
movements to learn what religious fundamentalisms are, if
and why they appear to be resurging, their characteristics,
their possible links to violence, and their relation to
modernity. Surveying work over the past two decades, we find
both substantial progress in sociological research on such
movements and major holes in conceptualizing and
understanding religious fundamentalism. We consider these
weaknesses and suggest where research might next be
directed.
... But as secularization theory proponent Peter Berger
(1992) writes, secularization theory failed to anticipate
something: that the demysti?cation of the world provided
within it the seeds both for the remysti?cation of the world
and resistance to the demysti?cation. These movements,
organizations, and people who remystify, and who resist
demysti?- cation, have come to be called fundamentalist.
Far from disappearing, religion and religious movements
appear to be resurging around the globe. According to
research, fundamentalist movements can be found in Africa,
the Middle East, Latin America, North America, and Asia,
including India. Such movements can be found in multiple
religions, including Judaism,
Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, neo-Confucianism, Christianity,
and Buddhism. These movements have political in?uence. As
Almond et al. (2003, p. 1) write:
Since the Iranian Revolution, purported fundamentalist
movements have risen to the highest levels of power in ?ve
countriesin Iran in 1979, in the Sudan in 1993, in Turkey,
Afghanistan, and India in 1996, and in India again in 1998
and 1999. There have been even more frequent penetrations by
fundamentalist movements into the parliaments, assemblies,
and political parties of such countries as Jordan, Israel,
Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, and the United States.
What is more, as we can see, hear, .... snip
Keywords: conservative religion, modernity, sectarianism,
religious nationalism
Accepted Paper Series
Date posted: January 11, 2008
That'a why an advanced placment environmental science
textbook was rejected by the The Texas Board of
Indoctrination, which chooses America's high school
textbooks.
details:
The Texas Board of Indoctrination
also:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: March 12, 2010
AUSTIN, Tex. After three days of turbulent meetings, the
Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies
curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and
economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American
capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers commitment to
a purely secular government and presenting Republican
political philosophies in a more positive light.
The vote was 10 to 5 along party lines, with all the
Republicans on the board voting for it.
The board, whose members are elected, has influence beyond
Texas because the state is one of the largest buyers of
textbooks. In the digital age, however, that influence has
diminished as technological advances have made it possible
for publishers to tailor books to individual states.
In recent years, board members have been locked in an
ideological battle between a bloc of conservatives who
question Darwins theory of evolution and believe the
Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles, and a
handful of Democrats and moderate Republicans who have
fought to preserve the teaching of Darwinism and the
separation of church and state. ...........snip
...But rarely in recent history has a group of
conservative board members left such a mark on a social
studies curriculum. ...........snip
=======
also:
The rise of religious fundamentalism - Emerson - Cited by 33
http://www.ntpu.edu.tw/~social/upload/P_1020081127150648.pdf
and
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20269196/Emerson-MO-and-Hartman-The-Rise-of-Religious-Fundamentalism
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 32, August 2006
Abstract:
Religious fundamentalism has risen to worldwide prominence
since the 1970s. We review research on fundamentalist
movements to learn what religious fundamentalisms are, if
and why they appear to be resurging, their characteristics,
their possible links to violence, and their relation to
modernity. Surveying work over the past two decades, we find
both substantial progress in sociological research on such
movements and major holes in conceptualizing and
understanding religious fundamentalism. We consider these
weaknesses and suggest where research might next be
directed.
... But as secularization theory proponent Peter Berger
(1992) writes, secularization theory failed to anticipate
something: that the demysti?cation of the world provided
within it the seeds both for the remysti?cation of the world
and resistance to the demysti?cation. These movements,
organizations, and people who remystify, and who resist
demysti?- cation, have come to be called fundamentalist.
Far from disappearing, religion and religious movements
appear to be resurging around the globe. According to
research, fundamentalist movements can be found in Africa,
the Middle East, Latin America, North America, and Asia,
including India. Such movements can be found in multiple
religions, including Judaism,
Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, neo-Confucianism, Christianity,
and Buddhism. These movements have political in?uence. As
Almond et al. (2003, p. 1) write:
Since the Iranian Revolution, purported fundamentalist
movements have risen to the highest levels of power in ?ve
countriesin Iran in 1979, in the Sudan in 1993, in Turkey,
Afghanistan, and India in 1996, and in India again in 1998
and 1999. There have been even more frequent penetrations by
fundamentalist movements into the parliaments, assemblies,
and political parties of such countries as Jordan, Israel,
Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, and the United States.
What is more, as we can see, hear, .... snip
Keywords: conservative religion, modernity, sectarianism,
religious nationalism
Accepted Paper Series
Date posted: January 11, 2008