Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University

by Donald Wiebe

Book Overview

In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe - that studies almost always exhibit a religious bias. To explore this issue, Wiebe looks at the religious and moral agendas behind the study of religion, showing that the boundaries between the objective study of religion and religious education as a tool for bettering society have become blurred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350103438
• ISBN13: 9781350103436
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"