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| Autor/in | Marsden, George M. |
|---|---|
| Titel | The soul of the American university revisited. From Protestant to postsecular. |
| Quelle | New York: Oxford University Press (2021), VI, 477 S. |
| Beigaben | Literaturangaben |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Monographie |
| ISBN | 0190073314 (gebundene Ausgabe); 9780190073312 (gebundene Ausgabe); 0197607241 (Taschenbuch); 9780197607244 (Taschenbuch) |
| Schlagwörter | USA; Education, Higher; Aims and objectives; History; United States; Protestant churches; Liberalism (Religion); Universities and colleges; Moral and ethical aspects; Enseignement supérieur; Finalités; Histoire; États-Unis; Églises protestantes; Universités; Aspect moral; Geschichte; Bildungsgeschichte |
| Abstract | Prologue I: God and Buckley at Yale (1951) -- Prologue II: Henry Sloane Coffin's Yale (1897) -- Prologue III: Yale embattled: Noah Porter versus William Graham Sumner (1880) -- Part I: the establishment of Protestant nonsectarianism. The burden of Christendom: seventeenth-century Harvard -- The new queen of the sciences and the new republic -- Two kinds of sectarianism -- A righteous consensus, Whig style -- The John the Baptist of the German university ideal -- Part II: Defining the university in a scientific era. The Christian legacy in the age of science -- Back to Noah Porter's Yale -- Daniel Coit Gilman and the model for a modern university -- Liberal Protestantism at Michigan -- Harvard and the religion of humanity -- Orthodoxy at the gentleman's club -- The low-church idea of a university -- Part III. When the tie no longer binds. The trouble with the old-time religion -- The elusive ideal of academic freedom -- The fundamentalist menace -- The obstacles to a Christian presence -- Outsiders -- Searching for a soul -- A church with the soul of a nation -- Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism -- The twenty-first-century postsecular university -- Epilogue: an unexpected sequel: a renaissance of Christian academia. The Soul of the American University is a classic and much discussed account of the changing roles of Christianity in shaping American higher education, presented here in a newly revised edition to offer insights for a modern era. --From the backcover |
| Erfasst von | Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
| Update | 2022/3/07 |
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