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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
2023
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| 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
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| Further subjects: | B
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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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
| ISBN: | 180374085X |