| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 281 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Wither College, Wither Country? -- One: Pious College Religion Meets New Humanism Skeptics -- Two: Princeton Department Founding Pushes Pious Centralized Study -- Three: Wartime 1940s Faith Presses Scientific Secular Skeptics -- Four: National Religion Turn Finds Odd Ally in Hutchins -- Five: Atomic Cold War Faces Yale Christian Hope -- Six: Harvard Dissents Feature Tillich, Niebuhr, and White -- Seven: College Ideal Leaves Morals to Religion Departments |
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Eight: Turn toward Religion Drives Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University -- Nine: Yale Tensions Reveal Divinity School Model Problems -- Conclusion: College Model Shift Signals Religious Studies Start -- Appendix of Typologies -- Selected Works -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
The End of College chronicles the transformation of religion's role in higher education in the US during the first half of the twentieth century. This period witnessed an end to the religious college and its decidedly religious ends. In its place, the American university ushered in religion departments and religious studies, which sought to make a more complete democracy |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- History -- 20th century
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Education, Higher -- Religious aspects
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Religion -- Study and teaching.
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Religion -- Study and teaching
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Education, Higher -- Religious aspects
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Universities and colleges
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781506471471 |
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1506471471 |
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