The Soul of the American University Revisited

The Soul of the American University Revisited
Author: George M. Marsden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2021
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190073314

"This volume ... is a revision and updating of The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994)"--Acknowledgments

The Soul of the American University

The Soul of the American University
Author: George M. Marsden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1994
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN: 0195106504

Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.

The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education

The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education
Author: John Arnold Schmalzbauer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN: 9781481308717

The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education documents a surprising openness to religion in collegiate communities. Schmalzbauer and Mahoney develop this claim in three areas: academic scholarship, church-related higher education, and student life. They highlight growing interest in the study of religion across the disciplines, as well as a willingness to acknowledge the intellectual relevance of religious commitments. The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education also reveals how church-related colleges are taking their founding traditions more seriously, even as they embrace religious pluralism. Finally, the volume chronicles the diversification of student religious life, revealing the longevity of campus spirituality.

Protestantism in America

Protestantism in America
Author: Randall Balmer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005-11-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780231507691

As America has become more pluralistic, Protestantism, with its long roots in American history and culture, has hardly remained static. This finely crafted portrait of a remarkably complex group of Christian denominations describes Protestantism's history, constituent subgroups and their activities, and the way in which its dialectic with American culture has shaped such facets of the wider society as healthcare, welfare, labor relations, gender roles, and political discourse. Part I provides an introduction to the religion's essential beliefs, a brief history, and a taxonomy of its primary American varieties. Part II shows the diversity of the tradition with vivid accounts of life and worship in a variety of mainline and evangelical churches. Part III explores the vexed relationship Protestantism maintains with critical social issues, including homosexuality, feminism, and social justice. The appendices include biographical sketches of notable Protestant leaders, a chronology, a glossary, and an annotated list of resources for further study.

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
Author: George M. Marsden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2024
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0197751105

First published in 1997, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship is a landmark work that offered a bold call to re-establish Christian perspectives in academia. For this second edition, George M. Marsden has added a new preface as well as an entirely new chapter reflecting on the changing landscape of academia in the quarter century since the book first appeared.

The Dying of the Light

The Dying of the Light
Author: James Tunstead Burtchaell
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Total Pages: 896
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

James Tunstead Burtchaell, who has extensive experience in American higher education as both a teacher and an administrator, provides case studies of seventeen prominent colleges and universities with diverse ecclesial origins - Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, and Evangelical. Using published and archival sources as well as firsthand interaction with each institution he covers, Burtchaell narrates how each school's religious identity eventually became first uncomfortable and then expendable, and he analyzes the processes that eroded the bonds between school and church.

The Promises and Pitfalls of Technology in Higher Education

The Promises and Pitfalls of Technology in Higher Education
Author: Norman Clark Capshaw
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2023-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1527527247

What will universities look like in 30- or 40-years’ time? This book looks at that future, examining the potential impact of technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, smart buildings, drones, robots, and holograms in future universities. It is a story told in three acts. The first act takes the reader through a history of the modern university, highlighting major innovations that have transformed the academy since the founding of the University of Bologna in 1088. A second act builds on this history and transports the reader to the future, observing the application of these technologies in a future university from the point of view of professors, administrators, and students, as we tour the transformed campus with them. The third act examines how these technologies might be adopted most effectively through the combined effort of university leaders, administrators, faculty and students.

Christian Higher Education

Christian Higher Education
Author: Perry L. Glanzer
Publisher: ACU Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 168426863X

Utilizing a common set of objective institutional markers as a compass, this book guides readers through the terrain of various Christian institutions. The Christian higher education landscape confuses many people. Future students, parents, staff, and even faculty often do not understand the important subtleties and nuances. They need a guide that empirically explores the ways Christian universities operationalize their Christian identity. This book will guide them through the field of Christian higher education and introduce our Operationalizing Christian Identity Guide (OCIG), which identifies the major ways Christian colleges and universities use their Christian identity to make mission, marketing, membership, curriculum, cocurricular, and other decisions (an online spreadsheet of OCIG scores for all the Christian colleges and universities in North America updated in real-time will be available to readers). These markers are identifiable by anyone, no matter their religious or nonreligious background. The OCIG is then employed to provide readers a tour of Protestant, historically Black, Catholic, evangelical/multidenominational, and Eastern Orthodox institutions in the United States and Canada. Parents, students, staff, and faculty will be equipped to engage Christian higher education with a clearer understanding of these key elements and their importance to the mission and purposes of individual institutions and Christian higher education at large.

Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education

Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education
Author: P. C. Kemeny
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2013-03-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1610979931

While debates abound today over the cost, purpose, and effectiveness of higher education, often lost in this conversation is a critical question: Should higher education attempt to shape students' moral and spiritual character in any systematic manner as in the past, or focus upon equipping students with mere technical knowledge?Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education argues that Christianity can still play an important role in contemporary American higher education. George M. Marsden, D. G. Hart, and George H. Nash, among its authors, analyze the debate over the secularization of the university and the impact of liberal Protestantism and fundamentalism on the American academy during the twentieth century. Contributors also assess how the ideas of Dorothy Sayers, C. S. Lewis, Wendell Berry, and Allan Bloom can be used to improve Christian higher education. Finally, the volume examines the contributions Christian faith can make to collegiate education and outlines how Christian institutions can preserve their religious mission while striving for academic excellence.

The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism

The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism
Author: Jason E. Vickers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108485324

A comprehensive guide-from both chronological and a topical perspective-to a broad, diverse, deeply rooted, and influential religious tradition.