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The second edition of What Schools Teach Us About Religious Life continues to explore the ways in which private education in the United States mirrors the growing complexity and fluidity of religious life in the United States.

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The second edition of What Schools Teach Us About Religious Life continues to explore the ways in which private education in the United States mirrors the growing complexity and fluidity of religious life in the United States. Through the study of ten different private schools-representing a wide variety of religious traditions as well as some secular institutions-a picture of contemporary culture, and the place of religious belief within the culture, emerges. Each chapter of this second edition of What Schools Teach Us About Religious Life contains a different picture of how individual schools then address that culture.

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Foreword and Acknowledgments - Introduction: Overflowing Containers - Doing Both - A Bold American Experiment - The Elephant in the Corner? - Unashamedly Unapologetic - That Long, Funny Word - Educating Hearts and Minds - Minding the Light - Delving into the Difficult - Changing the Narrative - Religious Connectivity - Conclusion: Gentler Souls.

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"Heischman´s seasoned perspective helps him articulate the challenges these schools face in their attempt to give a young person a place and voice in a small universe, but his perspective also allows him to see the larger social universe to which schools belong." Matthew W. Geiger, former faculty member, St. Stephen´s and St. Agnes School (VA)

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Daniel R. Heischman is the Executive Director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools (since 2007) and has served as the Board President of the Council for American Education (CAPE). An adjunct instructor in the Doctor of Ministry program at Virginia Theological Seminary, he was formerly the Chaplain of Trinity College (2003-2007), Assistant Headmaster and Head of the Upper School at St. Albans School in Washington DC (1994-2003) and Executive Director of the Council for Religion in Independent Schools (1987-1994). From 1979-1987 he was Chaplain and Head of the Religion Department at Trinity School in New York. He is the author of Good Influence: Teaching the Wisdom of Adulthood.

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