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Article: Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 23, 1994
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Edited by Douglas Johnston and Cynthia Sampson. Oxford University Press, 350 pp., 29.95.
IN THE LATE 1970s I taught English and religion in a secondary school in Zambia. Coming from the U.S., where alarms go off in public schools if a trace of religious conviction leaks out of textbooks, I was surprised to find that religion was regularly taught not only in "mission" schools but in all of Zambia's secondary schools. From what I could tell, this integration of religion and public life seemed natural to most Zambians. A national syllabus which blended indigenous religion and Christianity (Islam and Hinduism have since been added), and which contained considerable ...