Language, Religion, Knowledge

Past and Present

By: James Turner

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Hardcover | 8 January 2003

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Higher education and university-based research rank among the main forces shaping our world. Focusing on knowledge rather than institutions, Language, Religion, Knowledge offers penetrating insight into how higher learning took its present form and the direction in which it is headed. The first section of this remarkable collection probes the history of higher learning in the United States; the second analyzes problems in higher learning today.

Renowned historian James Turner uncovers surprising blind spots in our knowledge of how higher learning has evolved by focusing on four themes: the influence of philology, historicism, disciplinary specialization, and the retreat of religion from the academy. Turner offers an especially interesting discussion of the powerful, yet often unrecognized, impact of the study of texts and languages on knowledge.

These thought-provoking essays examine losses and gains for contemporary higher education resulting from the fading of religion. Turner counts fragmentation of knowledge and the "marooning of research on an island of secular modernity" as among the greatest losses. Yet, he also proposes ways for higher learning today to recover the benefits of religiously grounded thinking without compromising the advantages of secularity.

By demonstrating that religious intellectual traditions can and should reinvigorate the life of the mind, Language, Religion, Knowledge gives new insights into the past and future of higher education.

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"...Language, Religion, Knowledge is a book that deserves a wide audience among scholars of higher learning in America. It challenges a variety of assumptions about the past and present of the American university and seeks to create a discourse across academic disciplines about its future." —History of Education Quarterly

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Introduction	p. 1
Historical Studies
Language, Religion, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America: The Curious Case of Andrews Norton	p. 11
Charles Hodge in the Intellectual Weather of the Nineteenth Century	p. 31
Secularization and Sacralization: Some Religious Origins of the Secular Humanities Curriculum, 1850-1900	p. 50
The "German Model" and the Graduate School: The University of Michigan and the Origin Myth of the American University	p. 69
The Forgotten History of the Research Ideal	p. 95
Contemporary Interventions
Catholicism and Modern Scholarship: A Historical Sketch	p. 109
The Evangelical Intellectual Revival	p. 121
The Catholic University in Modern Academe: Challenge and Dilemma	p. 129
Catholic Intellectual Traditions and Contemporary Scholarship	p. 143
Notes	p. 157
Index	p. 196
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