The Sacred and the Secular University

by Jon H. Roberts and James Turner

Book Overview

American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fundamental changes--changes that helped to create the modern university we know today. Most significantly, the study of the sciences and the humanities effectively dissolved the Protestant framework of learning by introducing a new secularized curriculum. This secularization has long been recognized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015562
• ISBN13: 9780691015569
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"