The Study Of Religion In Two Year Colleges

Author : Charles Freeman Sleeper
Publisher : American Academy of Religion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Study of Religion in Two-year Colleges written by Charles Freeman Sleeper and published by American Academy of Religion. This book was released on 1975 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the culmination of a project begun in late January of 1974. The first stage was to determine the present status of the study of religion in two year colleges within the United States, using a questionnaire and supplementing that, in some cases, with a look at catalogues or course bulletins. The second stage was to develop different models for beginning courses in religion. The final stage reports both the results of the inventory and the course models, together with some introductory chapters and explanatory comments.

Author : Brian J. Fraser
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889207992
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Study of Religion in British Columbia written by Brian J. Fraser and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study of Religion in British Columbia is a story of enterprise, innovation and isolation. In this unique survey Brian J. Fraser examines the history and development of the institutions of higher education where religion is taught and describes the methods used to understand the religious dimension of human endeavour in Canada’s westernmost province. Fraser analyzes the sources, development and persistence of two distinct approaches to the study of religion in British Columbia: theological studies and religious studies. He traces the early strength and recent expansion of theological studies, especially among conservative evangelical Christians, and sets the creation of British Columbia’s only department of religious studies at the University of British Columbia in this context. He also describes the innovative curricula designed by several of the institutions for the study of religion in the province. Finally, he contends that the differing views on the nature of religion held by these institutions and their constituencies have led to a continuing isolation from each other. The Study of Religion in British Columbia is the latest volume in the Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religion’s series on the study of religion in Canada. Readers interested in the rich diversity of personalities and perspectives that have shaped religious studies in British Columbia will find here a concise description of its evolution and a thought-provoking examination of its significance.

Author : Harold Remus
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889206368
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Studies in Ontario written by Harold Remus and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Ontario universities were established by Christian denominations; a Christian ethos was assumed and pervasive, and students were required to take courses designed to teach and inculcate religion. This insightful and comprehensive study demonstrates how, as Ontario society became secularized and pluralistic, so too did universities. Today, religion is again studies in university classrooms but as “religious studies,” a relatively new field that reflects the religiously pluralistic nature of Ontario and the world-wide explosion of knowledge. This authoritative volume will be of interest to students of religion in and outside academic circles, to adminstratots of academic institutions and granting agencies and to persons wanting to know more about the social and cultural changes that have transformed Ontario and Canadian society.

Author : Douglas L. Winiarski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469628279
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darkness Falls on the Land of Light written by Douglas L. Winiarski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of the early eighteenth century. George Whitefield's preaching tour of 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thriving religious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated by miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit--visions, bodily fits, and sudden conversions--countless New Englanders broke ranks with family, neighbors, and ministers who dismissed their religious experiences as delusive enthusiasm. These new converts, the progenitors of today's evangelical movement, bitterly assaulted the Congregational establishment. The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, as men and women groped toward a restructured religious order. Conflict transformed inclusive parishes into exclusive networks of combative spiritual seekers. Then as now, evangelicalism emboldened ordinary people to question traditional authorities. Their challenge shattered whole communities.

Author : Michael J. Kruger
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433572109
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving Religion 101 written by Michael J. Kruger and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can't imagine a college student—skeptic, doubter, Christian, struggler—who wouldn't benefit from this book." —Kevin DeYoung For many young adults, the college years are an exciting period of selfdiscovery full of new relationships, new independence, and new experiences. Yet college can also be a time of personal testing and intense questioning— especially for Christian students confronted with various challenges to Christianity and the Bible for the first time. Drawing on years of experience as a biblical scholar, Michael Kruger addresses common objections to the Christian faith—the exclusivity of Christianity, Christian intolerance, homosexuality, hell, the problem of evil, science, miracles, and the reliability of the Bible. If you're a student dealing with doubt or wrestling with objections to Christianity from fellow students and professors alike, this book will equip you to engage secular challenges with intellectual honesty, compassion, and confidence—and ultimately graduate college with your faith intact.

Author : Conrad Cherry
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855003
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion on Campus written by Conrad Cherry and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to today's undergr

Author : Ilana M. Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197534147
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Grades, and Graduation written by Ilana M. Horwitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's widely acknowledged that American parents from different class backgrounds take different approaches to raising their children. Upper and middle-class parents invest considerable time facilitating their children's activities, while working class and poor families take a more hands-off approach. These different strategies influence how children approach school. But missing from the discussion is the fact that millions of parents on both sides of the class divide are raising their children to listen to God. What impact does a religious upbringing have on their academic trajectories? Drawing on 10 years of survey data with over 3,000 teenagers and over 200 interviews, God, Grades, and Graduation (GGG) offers a revealing and at times surprising account of how teenagers' religious upbringing influences their educational pathways from high school to college. GGG introduces readers to a childrearing logic that cuts across social class groups and accounts for Americans' deep relationship with God: religious restraint. This book takes us inside the lives of these teenagers to discover why they achieve higher grades than their peers, why they are more likely to graduate from college, and why boys from lower middle-class families particularly benefit from religious restraint. But readers also learn how for middle-upper class kids--and for girls especially--religious restraint recalibrates their academic ambitions after graduation, leading them to question the value of attending a selective college despite their stellar grades in high school. By illuminating the far-reaching effects of the childrearing logic of religious restraint, GGG offers a compelling new narrative about the role of religion in academic outcomes and educational inequality"--

Author : Steven L. Jacobs
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557535213
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maven in Blue Jeans written by Steven L. Jacobs and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of academic essays have been written in tribute to Professor Zev Garber, and are divided to reflect the areas in which Professor Garber has devoted his teaching and writing energies: the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian relations, philosophy and theology, history and biblical interpretation.

Author : Scott S. Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317546628
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Religious Studies written by Scott S. Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reinventing Religious Studies" offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has been transformed into a critical discipline informed by a wide range of perspectives from sociology to anthropology, politics to material culture, and economics to cultural theory. "Reinventing Religious Studies" brings together key writings which have helped shape scholarship, teaching and learning in the field. All the essays are drawn from the CSSR Bulletin, a provocative, occasionally irreverent, and always critical journal which has long been at the centre of debates in Religious Studies. This collection will prove invaluable for students and scholars of theory and method in Religious Studies. It offers readers a unique opportunity to understand the history of key issues in the study of religion and what remains central to the study of religion today.

Author : Jane Geaney
Publisher : Suny Series in Chinese Philoso
ISBN 13 : 9781438468600
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language as Bodily Practice in Early China written by Jane Geaney and published by Suny Series in Chinese Philoso. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a "language crisis."