The University Gets Religion
Subtitle: Religious Studies in American Higher Education
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801862106
Subjects: Higher & further education; Philosophy of education; Religion: general; History Of Religion (General); College And University Curricula; Education / Teaching; Universities and colleges; Education; USA; Religion; Higher; Education / Higher; Curricula; History; Study and teaching (Higher); United States
First sentence: IF ANYONE WONDERS WHAT side Cornell University took in the debates over religion and science, a casual reading of The History of the Warfare of Theology with Science in Christendom (1896) by its president, Andrew Dickson White, should answer most questions.
Description: "In The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education, historian D. G. Hart examines the rise of religion to its current place as one of the largest academic disciplines in contemporary higher education.".

"The first sustained history of the academic study of religion at American universities, The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education is a timely book that explores the present-day implications of religious studies' Protestant past."--BOOK JACKET.