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This volume aims to reveal how Dewey‚Äôs notion of the religious‚Äîunderstood as faith in the human relational condition‚Äîoffers a way to think differently about the aims and purposes of education. After exploring the effects of neoliberal conceptions of schooling against broader democratic forms of education, this book suggests that Dewey‚Äôs vision of the “teacher-as-prophet” is a useful model for positioning teachers as agents of social change. By catalysing the religious work of schools‚Äîunderstood not as teaching religion, but as a process of social unification‚Äîthe Deweyan teacher-as-prophet can stimulate experimentation towards a democratic ideal of schooling.