This article responds to Bruce Collet’s article From Refuge to Polis: Shifting the Rationale for Religiosity in Schools.” In this rejoinder my intention is to shift the discussion from school-as-refuge to school-as-polis and to ask whether the integration interests of recent immigrants and refugees might not be better served by a more inclusive approach to religiosity in schools that is less about collective exception and more about social transformation.
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