Religion, education, and the American experience
Subtitle: reflections on religion and American public life
By: edited by Edith L. Blumhofer ; introduction by Martin E. Marty
Contributors: Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel
Series: Religion and American culture; Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Religion in the public schools -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Religion; Christian education -- United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Liberal education and religious studies / Warren A. Nord; title: Beyond the boundaries : literature, religion, and science / Roger Lundin; title: The dying of the light or the glimmering of the dawn? / Robert Benne; title: A call for diversity / Mark U. Edwards, Jr.; title: Public religion and higher education : the role of the faculty in maintaining the Catholic identity of Catholic colleges and universities / Charles Zech; title: A memorandum on the higher learning in Catholic America / Robert Sullivan; title: Religion and public education / James C. Moyer; title: The view from the university chapel / Alison L. Boden; title: The college president as spiritual leader / Edison O. Jackson; title: Religion, schooling, and home education : past and present / James C. Carper and Brian D. Ray