The soul of the American university revisited: from Protestant to postsecular

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. --

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Main Author: Marsden, George M. 1939- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford University Press [2021]
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Further subjects:B Education, Higher Aims and objectives (United States) History
B Protestant Churches (United States) History
B Universités - Aspect moral - États-Unis - Histoire
B United States
B History
B Enseignement supérieur - Finalités - États-Unis - Histoire
B Liberalism (Religion) (United States) Protestant churches History
B Protestant Churches
B Education, Higher - Aims and objectives
B Universities and colleges - Moral and ethical aspects
B Églises protestantes - États-Unis - Histoire
B Liberalism (Religion) - Protestant churches
B Universities and colleges Moral and ethical aspects (United States) History

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505 8 0 |a 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. 
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