The soul of the American university revisited from Protestant to postsecular / George M. Marsden.
| Author/creator | Marsden, George M., 1939- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2021] |
| Description | vi, 477 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue I: God and Buckley at Yale (1951) -- Prologue II: Henry Sloane Coffin's Yale (1897) -- Prologue III: Yale embattled: Noah Porter versus William Graham Sumner (1880) -- Part I: the establishment of Protestant nonsectarianism. The burden of Christendom: seventeenth-century Harvard -- The new queen of the sciences and the new republic -- Two kinds of sectarianism -- A righteous consensus, Whig style -- The John the Baptist of the German university ideal -- Part II: Defining the university in a scientific era. The Christian legacy in the age of science -- Back to Noah Porter's Yale -- Daniel Coit Gilman and the model for a modern university -- Liberal Protestantism at Michigan -- Harvard and the religion of humanity -- Orthodoxy at the gentleman's club -- The low-church idea of a university -- Part III. When the tie no longer binds. The trouble with the old-time religion -- The elusive ideal of academic freedom -- The fundamentalist menace -- The obstacles to a Christian presence -- Outsiders -- Searching for a soul -- A church with the soul of a nation -- Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism -- The twenty-first-century postsecular university -- Epilogue: an unexpected sequel: a renaissance of Christian academia. |
| Abstract | The Soul of the American University is a classic and much discussed account of the changing roles of Christianity in shaping American higher education, presented here in a newly revised edition to offer insights for a modern era. -- From the backcover |
| General note | "This volume ... is a revision and updating of The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994)"--Acknowledgments |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-458) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021904220 |
| ISBN | 0190073314 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780190073312 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0197607241 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780197607244 (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |