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The End of College : Religion and the Transformation of Higher Education in the 20th Century

The End of College chronicles the transformation of religion's role in higher education in the US during the first half of the twentieth century. This period witnessed an end to the religious college and its decidedly religious ends. In its place, the American university ushered in religion dep...

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Autor principal: Wilson-Black, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Wither College, Wither Country? -- One: Pious College Religion Meets New Humanism Skeptics -- Two: Princeton Department Founding Pushes Pious Centralized Study -- Three: Wartime 1940s Faith Presses Scientific Secular Skeptics -- Four: National Religion Turn Finds Odd Ally in Hutchins -- Five: Atomic Cold War Faces Yale Christian Hope -- Six: Harvard Dissents Feature Tillich, Niebuhr, and White -- Seven: College Ideal Leaves Morals to Religion Departments 
505 0 |a Eight: Turn toward Religion Drives Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University -- Nine: Yale Tensions Reveal Divinity School Model Problems -- Conclusion: College Model Shift Signals Religious Studies Start -- Appendix of Typologies -- Selected Works -- Notes -- Index 
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