If the purpose of Clojure for the Brave is not to teach functional programming, why bother teaching it? Why go through the motions when not fully committed? Is it better than pointing the student to excellent resources despite those resources using another form of Lisp?
To put it another way, is anyone really going to know Clojure without knowing the something about SICP? Is there anything out there that more fully captures Clojure's definition of functional programming than On Lisp or Learn You a Haskell for Great Good?
OK so here's where we differ. It's in our definitions [what could be more Clojuresque] of "learning Clojure". Sure, Clojure's syntax takes an hour versus the thirty minutes Ableson takes to cover Lisp syntax including the substitution model. Then what?
Well I'm saying the two things a person needs to learn Clojure are the practices already described in four decades of Lisp's literature and the Clojure interop. Without either piece, I won't know Clojure.