The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education

by D.G. Hart

Book Overview

In The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education, historian D. G. Hart examines the rise of religion to its current place as one of the largest academic disciplines in contemporary higher education. Protestant ministers and faculty, arguing for the importance of religion to a truly liberal education, were especially influential in staffing departments and designing curricula to reflect their own assumptions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080187100X
• ISBN13: 9780801871009
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"