Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada : A Personal Retrospective /
In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that of...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1 Early Days: From Theology in Seminaries to Non-sectarian Religious Studies
- 2 The Golden Decade 1966-1976
- 3 McMaster Days: My Personal Experiences of McMaster in the Early 1970s
- 4 McMaster's Contribution to Religious Studies in Canada
- 5 Growing into Maturity: Development of Religious Studies Departments from the Late 1970s to the Present
- 6 The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria
- 7 Taking Seriously Our Interdisciplinary Heritage: The Future of Religious Studies
- 8 Conclusion.