The decline of the secular university

• Main Author: Sommerville, C. John
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2006; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Church and college; History of Christianity; Kirchliche Hochschule; Religion and Education; Religious Issues and Debates; Sociology and Anthropology of Religion; United States History; Universities and colleges; USA; education; university; America; science; secularism; academic moralizing; religion

The American university has embraced a thorough secularism that makes it increasingly marginal in a society that is characterized by high levels of religious belief. The very secularization that was supposed to be a liberating influence has resulted in the university's failure to provide leader...