Religious Advocacy and American History
Edited By: D.G. Hart
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Religious Advocacy and American History  -     Edited By: D.G. Hart
    By: Bruce Kuklick

Religious Advocacy and American History

Edited By: D.G. Hart
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 1997 / Paperback

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To what extent does the culture of the modern research university harbor and nuture a bias against religion? Some scholars believe that the academy inconsistently excludes personal religious convictions while welcoming most other kinds of personal beliefs such as those concerning gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Others say that religion in the university is thriving and point to the proliferation of religious studies programs and the mounting literature on religion in the social sciences and humanities.
Related to the question of academic bias against religion is the degree to which teaching about religion is a form of religious advocacy. Some believe that even though teaching about religion is necessary to understand human experience, such teaching often borders on advocacy if the dogmatic intolerant, and unreasonable nature of religion is not acknowledged. Others answer that if professors may advocate other ideologies--whether political, cultural, or economic--that are fairly partisan, then religion should not be treated differently.
Religious Advocacy and American History explores the general question of bias and objectivity in higher learning from the perspective of the role of religious convictions in the study of American history. The contributors to this book, many of whom are leading historians of American religion and culture, address primarily two related questions. First, how do personal religious convictions influence one's own research, writing, and teaching? And second whatplace should personal beliefs have within American higher education?

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Title: Religious Advocacy and American History
By: Bruce Kuklick
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 233
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 1997
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 0802842607
ISBN-13: 9780802842602
Stock No: WW2842607

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To what extent does the culture of the modern research university harbor and nurture a bias against religion? Some scholars believe that the academy inconsistently excludes personal religious convictions while welcoming most other kinds of personal beliefs such as those concerning gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Others says that religion in the university is thriving and point to the proliferation of religious studies programs and the mounting literature on religion in the social sciences and humanities.

Related to the question of academic bias against religion is the degree to which teaching about religion is a form of religious advocacy. Some believe that even though teaching about religion is necessary to understand human experience, such teaching often borders on advocacy if the dogmatic, intolerant, and unreasonable nature of religion is not acknowledged. Others answer that if professors may advocate other ideologies — whether political, cultural, or economic — that are fairly partisan, then religion should not be treated differently.

Religious Advocacy and American History explores the general question of bias and objectivity in higher learning from the perspective of the role of religious convictions in the study of American history. The contributors to this book, many of whom are leading historians of American religion and culture, address primarily two related questions. First, how do personal religious convictions influence one's own research, writing, and teaching? And, second, what place should personal beliefs have within American higher education?

Contributors:
Catherine L. Albanese
Paul Boyer
Paul A. Carter
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Eugene D. Genovese
D. G. Hart
Bruce Kuklick
George M. Marsden
Murray G. Murphey
Mark A. Noll
Leo Ribuffo
Harry S. Stout
Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Grant Wacker

Author Bio

D. G. HART teaches history at Hillsdale College and has written several books on the history of Christianity, including Calvinism: A History and From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism.

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Roger Lundin
—Wheaton College
"This bold and bracing book impressively frames the present debate about religion in the academy."

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