Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Civic Education and Religious Schools -- CHAPTER 1 The Civic Case against Religious Schools -- The Civic Goals of Education -- Civic Goals as the Only Goals of Public Education Policy -- Do Religious Schools Make Good Citizens? -- The Civic Value of Religious Schools -- Responses and Conclusions -- CHAPTER 2 Civic Education and the Autonomy Problem in Political Liberalism -- Conflicting Educational Goals: Three Approaches to Resolution -- Liberalism without Political Primacy -- Is Autonomy a "Cost" of Civic Education? -- Liberal Democratic Principles Presuppose the Value of Autonomy -- Conclusion -- PART II: Autonomy as a Public Value -- CHAPTER 3 Autonomy, Identity, and Choice -- Autonomy as Ongoing Rational Reflection -- Caricatures of Rational Autonomy -- The Nature of Autonomous Reflection -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 The Value of Autonomy in a Pluralist World -- John Stuart Mill, Joseph Raz, and the Intrinsic Value of Autonomy -- Contemporary Liberal Responses to Mill: The Neutrality Condition -- Autonomy and Moral Responsibility -- Arguments for the Instrumental Value of Autonomy -- The Instrumental Value of Autonomy and the Neutrality Principle -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 Autonomy as a Goal of Education Policy: Objections and Responses -- Parental Rights and Interests -- "Parents Are People Too" -- The Death Knell for Traditional Ways of Life? -- Other Objections and Responses -- Conclusion -- PART III: Religious Schools and Education for Autonomy -- CHAPTER 6 Secular Public Schools: Critiques and Responses -- What's Wrong with Secular Education? -- Public Control of Schools -- Authority and Autonomy -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 7 Religious Secondary Schools as Threat to Autonomy? -- The Development of Autonomy Cannot Be Taken for Granted -- The Autonomy Case against Religious Schools.

Hallmarks of Permissible Religious Secondary Schools -- Regulation and Entanglement -- Conclusions and Policy Implications -- CHAPTER 8 The Role of Religious Primary Schools -- Age-Sensitive Education -- Primary Culture and Identity -- Reasoning within an Ethical Framework -- Cognitive Development and Autonomous Reflection -- Maintaining the Option of Autonomous Religious Belief -- Hallmarks of Permissible Religious Primary Schools -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.