Title: Religion, education, and the American experience : reflections on religion and American public life /
Authors: Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Religion in the public schools United States; Universities and colleges United States Religion.; Christian education United States
Abstract: This collection of provocative and timely essays addresses the ways in which religion and educational institutions have come to define one another and American culture and identity. The ten major essays assembled here emerged from a series of conferences conducted by the Public Religion Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, funded by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trust.
Contents: Liberal education and religious studies / Warren A. Nord -- Beyond the boundaries : literature, religion, and science / Roger Lundin -- The dying of the light or the glimmering of the dawn? / Robert Benne -- A call for diversity / Mark U. Edwards, Jr. -- Public religion and higher education : the role of the faculty in maintaining the Catholic identity of Catholic colleges and universities / Charles Zech -- A memorandum on the higher learning in Catholic America / Robert Sullivan -- Religion and public education / James C. Moyer -- The view from the university chapel / Alison L. Boden -- The college president as spiritual leader / Edison O. Jackson -- Religion, schooling, and home education : past and present / James C. Carper and Brian D. Ray.