The Secularization of the Academy

by Marsden, George M.; Longfield, Bradley J.

• ISBN13: 9780195073522
• ISBN10: 0195073525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-04-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Preface


Introduction


1. The Soul of the American University: An Historical Overview, George Marsden


2. From Evangelicalism to Liberalism: Public Midwestern Universities in Nineteeth-Century America, Bradley Longfi

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Soul of the American University: An Historical Overview

From Evangelicalism to Liberalism: Public Midwestern Universities in Nineteeth-Century America

Secularization and Sacralization: Speculations on Some Religious Origins of the Secular Humanities Curriculum, 1850-1900

Faith and Learning in the Age of the University: The Academic Ministry of Daniel Coit Gilman

"For God, for Country, and for Yale": Yale, Religion, and Higher Education Between the World Wars

"The Survival of Recognizably Protestant Colleges:" Reflections on Old-Line Protestantism, 1950-1990

American Learning and the Problem of Religious Studies

American Catholic Higher Education, 1940-1990: The Ideological Context

The Secularization of British Universities since the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Protestant Colleges in Canada: Past and Future

Christianity and the University in America: A Bibliographical Essay

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