Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

by Philip Gleason

Book Overview

How did Catholic colleges and universities deal with the modernization of education and the rise of research universities? In this book, Philip Gleason offers the first comprehensive study of Catholic higher education in the twentieth century, tracing the evolution of responses to an increasingly secular educational system. At the beginning of the century, Catholics accepted modernization in the organizational sphere while resisting it ideologically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195098285
• ISBN13: 9780195098280
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"