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The decline of the secular university /

The American university has embraced a thorough secularism that makes it increasingly marginal in a society that is characterized by high levels of religious belief. The very secularization that was supposed to be a liberating influence has resulted in the university's failure to provide leader...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sommerville, C. John (Charles John), 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > United States > Religion.
Church and college > United States.
Education.
Universités > États-Unis > Religion.
Église et université > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Church and college
Education
Universities and colleges > Religion
United States
Hochschule
Religion
USA
Universiteiten.
Godsdienst.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The marginalization of our universities
  • Trouble defining the human
  • Trouble maintaining the fact/value dichotomy
  • Trouble eliminating religion
  • Trouble judging religions
  • Science gets strange
  • Teaching about secularism, or teaching secularism?
  • Losing a sense of history
  • Moralizing as a bad habit
  • How religious scholars could contribute
  • Postsecularism and the university
  • A vision of the future.