The University Gets Religion

Author : Darryl G. Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University Gets Religion written by Darryl G. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first sustained history of the academic study of religion at American universities, The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education is a timely book that explores the present-day implications of religious studies' Protestant past."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David W. Gill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725265508
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Should God Get Tenure? written by David W. Gill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, theological and religious perspectives have been marginalized, if not utterly excluded in many of our colleges and universities. The essays in this book argue in different ways for the critical, appreciative inclusion of theological and religious perspectives in higher education. The contributors believe that even in our secular, religiously disestablished era, religion and God continue to occupy an important and dynamic role in personal and social life. If our colleges and universities are to fulfill their higher aspirations of educating whole persons for the real world in all of its diversity and challenge, we need to go bravely against the flow and “give God tenure.”

Author : D. G. Hart
Publisher : ISI Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Religious Studies written by D. G. Hart and published by ISI Books. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of religion in American higher education is fraught with difficulties that raise important questions about the nature of faith and the purpose of advanced learning.

Author : Robert Wilson-Black
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506471471
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of College written by Robert Wilson-Black and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College in the United States changed dramatically during the twentieth century, ushering in what we know today as the American university in all its diversity. Religion departments made their way into institutions in the 1930s to the 1960s, while significant shifts from college to university occurred. The college ideal was primarily shaping the few to enter the Protestant management class through the inculcation of values associated with a Western civilization that relied upon this training done residentially, primarily for young men. Protestant Christian leaders created religion departments as the college model was shifting to the university ideal, where a more democratized population, including women and non-Protestants, studied under professors trained in specialized disciplines to achieve professional careers in a more internationally connected and post-industrial class. Religion departments at mid-century were addressing the lack of an agreed-upon curricular center in the wake of changes such as the elective system, Carnegie credit-hour formulation, and numerous other shifts in disciplines spelling the end of the college ideal, though certainly continuing many of its traditions and structures. Religion departments were an attempt to provide a cultural and religious center that might hold, enhance existential and moral meaning for students, and strengthen an argument against the German research university ideals of naturalistic science whose so-called objectivity proved, at best, problematic and, at worst, inept given the political crisis in Europe. Colleges found they were losing sight of the college ideal and hoped religion as a taught subject could bring back much of what college had meant, from moral formation and curricular focus to personal piety and national unity. That hope was never realized, and what remained in its wake helped fuel the university model with its specialized religion departments seeking entirely different ends. In the shift from college to university, religion professors attempted to become creators of a legitimate academic subject quite apart from the chapel programs, attempts at moralizing, and centrality in the curriculum of Western Christian thought and history championed in the college model.

Author : Dominic Corrywright
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626832
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Set for Religious Studies written by Dominic Corrywright and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from RE A level, or from entirely alternate roots (many RS students have not taken previous RS related courses), to Religious Studies at university requires some careful shepherding. The field is huge. This introductory book will provide a clear map for the key features of the terrain. The two main strands shaping the book define what religions are and explain how Religious Studies approaches the religions. The language is clear at the same time as introducing some of the key terminology used in the study of religions. The study of religions and the academic discipline of Religious Studies are growing areas in tertiary education in the UK. The continued interest in RE AS and A level as well as the growth in cognate humanities and social sciences, such as Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, at AS/A level and GNVQ level indicates the significant interest amongst students on matters that pertain to culture and humanity in general. Students realise that religion is a driving force in contemporary culture and the study of it is central to understanding the contemporary world. The statistics on religious belief bear out their interest: four billion out of the six billion people who inhabit the world profess religious belief; even in the 'secular' societies of the Western world religiosity is growing and changing--a recent BBC poll stated that 70% of people in the UK believe in a 'higher being' or spiritual force.

Author : Anna Sun
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846080
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucianism as a World Religion written by Anna Sun and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion. The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when Friedrich Max Müller and James Legge classified Confucianism as a world religion in the new discourse of "world religions" and the emerging discipline of comparative religion. Anna Sun shows how that decisive moment continues to influence the understanding of Confucianism in the contemporary world, not only in the West but also in China, where the politics of Confucianism has become important to the present regime in a time of transition. Contested histories of Confucianism are vital signs of social and political change. Sun also examines the revival of Confucianism in contemporary China and the social significance of the ritual practice of Confucian temples. While the Chinese government turns to Confucianism to justify its political agenda, Confucian activists have started a movement to turn Confucianism into a religion. Confucianism as a world religion might have begun as a scholarly construction, but are we witnessing its transformation into a social and political reality? With historical analysis, extensive research, and thoughtful reflection, Confucianism as a World Religion will engage all those interested in religion and global politics at the beginning of the Chinese century.

Author : Donald Wiebe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350103454
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University written by Donald Wiebe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe - that studies almost always exhibit a religious bias. To explore this issue, Wiebe looks at the religious and moral agendas behind the study of religion, showing that the boundaries between the objective study of religion and religious education as a tool for bettering society have become blurred. As a result, he argues, religious studies departments have fostered an environment where religion has become a learned or scholarly practice, rather than the object of academic scrutiny. This book provides a critical history of the failure of 20th- and 21st-century scholars to follow through on the 19th-century ideal of an objective scientific study of religious thought and behaviour. Although emancipated from direct ecclesiastical control and, to some extent, from sectarian theologizing, Wiebe argues that research and scholarship in the academic department of religious studies has failed to break free from religious constraints. He shows that an objective scientific study of religious thought and practice is not only possible, but the only appropriate approach to the study of religious phenomena.

Author : Darryl G. Hart
Publisher : American Ways
ISBN 13 : 9781566634595
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Old-time Religion in Modern America written by Darryl G. Hart and published by American Ways. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hart unpacks evangelicalism's current reputation by tracing its development over the course of the twentieth century.

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191538124
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Universities written by Mordechai Feingold and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XXI/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education, Religion, and the Common Good written by Martin E. Marty and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian explores the proper role of religion in schools responsible for shaping the next generation for enlightened citizenship. Drawing upon a series of conversations he hosted among educators and religious leaders, Marty draws a nuanced picture of the interrelationship between religious and educational concerns at all levels of schooling.