Religion on Our Campuses A Professor's Guide to Communities, Conflicts, and Promising Conversations

by Edwards, Jr., Mark U.

• ISBN13: 9781403972095
• ISBN10: 1403972095
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Religion on Our Campuses sets the table for open-minded (but perhaps skeptical) faculty members to reflect on the appropriate role of religion in scholarship and teaching. By situating religion and disciplinary scholarship within their community contexts, it seeks to promote faculty self-awareness and encourage dialogue with colleagues. It covers topics ranging from religious influences in faculty lives to questions of academic freedom, proselytization, ans appropriate limits to religious expression within the Academy.

Author Biography

Mark U. Edwards, Jr. is Associate Dean for Academic Administration at Harvard Divinity School and President Emeritus of St. Olaf College.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(10)
Part I Cautions
1 Cautionary Tales	11	(10)
2 Encounters	21	(10)
Part II Communities
3 Religious Formation	31	(12)
4 Disciplinary Formation	43	(18)
5 Institutional Settings	61	(10)
Part III Individuals
6 Narrative Identity	71	(18)
7 Inclinations	89	(14)
Part IV Implications
8 Community Warrant	103	(8)
9 Academic Freedom	111	(24)
10 Reticence	135	(16)
11 In the Classroom	151	(14)
Conclusion	165	(4)
Appendix 1 Advice for Seminar Leaders	169	(4)
Appendix 2 How and Why I Became an Academic?	173	(4)
Notes	177	(25)
Index	202