Protestant Privilege and Pluralism on Campus: Contrasting Cases from North Carolina's Research Triangle, C. 1800-Present

This book illustrates how the university campus is and has been a crucial space where diverse actors who embody Protestant, secular and pluralist forces negotiate the role of religion in a pluralistic society. It illuminates a range of challenges to achieving a substantive and inclusive dialogue abo...

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Main Author: Muir, Scott (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers 2023
In:Year: 2023
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:Histories of Religious Pluralism Series v.2
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B North Carolina / Religious pluralism / Religious tolerance / Religious life / University / College
Further subjects:B Electronic books
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Summary:This book illustrates how the university campus is and has been a crucial space where diverse actors who embody Protestant, secular and pluralist forces negotiate the role of religion in a pluralistic society. It illuminates a range of challenges to achieving a substantive and inclusive dialogue about meaning and values on campus and beyond.
Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Figures -- Chapter 1 The Campus - A Contested Space: Competing Perspectives on Religion and Higher Education -- The Broader Context of American Higher Education -- Literature Review: The Campus as Secularist, Pluralist and Characterized by Christian Privilege -- Methodology: Towards a More Flexible, Interactive Framework -- North Carolina's Research Triangle -- On Normativity, Bias and My Position as a Researcher -- Thesis and Chapter Outline -- Chapter 2 A Fragmented Establishment: Protestant, Pluralist and Secular Forces at Duke University, 1839-2019 -- Non-Sectarianism: Religion, the State, and the Other, 1839-1910 -- Inter-denominationalism: Building the Modern University for Christ, 1910-1960 -- Pluriformity: The Protestant University Embraces Secularism and Pluralism, 1960-2019 -- Lessons for Scholarship on Religion and Higher Education -- Chapter 3 A Puzzle of Paradoxes: Piety, Patriarchy, and Women's Empowerment at Meredith College, 1900-2019 -- Chapter Outline: A Puzzle of Paradoxes -- Baptist Faith and Women's Education -- Reinforcing and Transgressing Gendered Boundaries -- The Evangelical Mainline at Midcentury -- Rupture: A Baptist Battle over Faith and Gender -- Redefining Institutional Mission in a Pluriform Era -- Gains and Loses -- Chapter 4 Institutional Myths: Race, Protestant Privilege and Pluralism at NCCU and UNC-CH, 1795-2019 -- Race, Secularism and Religion on the Public University Campus -- Institutional Myths and Religious Life Structures on Campus -- Segregated Public Liberal Arts Education -- The Nation's First Public University -- The State's First Black Liberal Arts College -- Race and Secularism in the Protestant Era of Higher Education -- Protestant and Secular Myths in the Context of Segregation.
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ISBN:180374085X