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9780801862106

The University Gets Religion

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801862106

  • ISBN10:

    0801862108

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-12-01
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

In The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education, historian D. G. Hart examines the rise of religion to its current place as one of the largest academic disciplines in contemporary higher education. Protestant ministers and faculty, arguing for the importance of religion to a truly "liberal" education, were especially influential in staffing departments and designing curricula to reflect their own assumptions about the value of religion not just for higher education but for American culture in general. But the success of mainstream Protestantism in fostering the academic study of religion has become the field's greatest burden. Religion scholars have distanced themselves from traditional Protestant orientations while looking for topics better suited to America's cultural diversity. As a result, religion is in the awkward position of being one of the largest scholarly disciplines while simultaneously lacking a solid academic justification. It may be time, Hart argues, for academics to stop trying to secure a religion-friendly university.

Author Biography

D. G. Hart is an associate professor of church history and theological bibliography at Westminster Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Why Study Religion? 1(20)
Part I: The Age of the University, 1870-1925
Enlightened Christianity and the Founding of the University
21(25)
Protestant Divinity in the Shadow of the University
46(21)
The Emergence of a Pattern
67(26)
Part II: The Age of the Protestant Establishment, 1925-1965
Religious Studies and the Humanities
93(20)
Finding a Place for Theology
113(21)
The Good Book for Tough Times
134(20)
Church History for the Nation
154(23)
Part III: The Age of the American Academy of Religion, 1965-Present
Religious Studies and the Failure of the Christian Academy
177(23)
Religious Studies in Post-Protestant America
200(23)
Religious Studies, the Would-be Discipline
223(30)
Conclusion: Whither Religion in the University?
235(18)
Notes 253(48)
Bibliographical Essay 301(12)
Index 313

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