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"Beyond the Faith-Knowledge Dichotomy: Teaching as Vocation"
Newman, Elizabeth
in Professing in the Postmodern Academy : Faculty and the Future of Church-related Colleges (Waco, TX : Baylor University Press, 2002), 131-148
2002

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religion and Academia

"Caring about More: An Integrative Capstone Course Connecting Religious Studies with General Education"
Carlson, Jeffrey
Teaching Theology and Religion 4, no. 2 (2001): 81-88
2001
This paper describes and analyzes an "Integrating Seminar" capstone course for undergraduate religious studies majors, which has the following goals for student learning: (1) to reflect on the cumulative achievement of their studies of religion; (2) to take stock of their learning in liberal studies coursework; and (3) to explore the connections between these specialized and general learning experiences. Readings provided by the instructor and the...

•	"Teaching Theology and Religion" (Wabash journal)

•	Religion and Academia

"Ex Corde Universitatis: From the Heart of the University"
O'Brien, George Dennis
Christian Higher Education 3, no. 3 (2004): 277-294
2004
From the Publisher
This paper explores the place of religion within the assumptions of the modern research university. The issue for Christianity is essentially epistemic: Given the criteria for truth or plausibility that prevail in advanced academic communities, what are the warrants for Christian belief? Are the prevailing criteria defined such that Christian claims can have no epistemic standing? The modern-day clash between Christianity and...

•	Religion and Academia

"Introduction to Religious Studies, Theology, and the University: Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain"
Cady, Linell and Delwin Brown
Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 31, no. 4 (2002): 96-101
11/2002

•	Religion and Academia

The American University in a Postsecular Age
Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, eds.
Oxford University Press, NY
2008
From The Publisher

For much of the twentieth century, it was assumed that higher education was and ought to be a secular enterprise, but that approach no longer suffices. The culture has shifted, and contemporary college and university students are increasingly bringing religious and spiritual questions to campus. In response, college and university leaders are exploring anew the relationship between religion and higher education.

...

•	Religion and Academia

A Buddhist in the Classroom
Brown, Sid
State University of New York Press
2008
From the Publisher
Sid Brown brings a Buddhist perspective into the classroom to explore the ethical quandaries, lived experiences and intimacy of teaching. Addressing such topics as attention, community, rage, wonder, consumerism, and kindness, Brown demonstrates how this centuries-old tradition can enrich and inform classroom life.

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Method and Theory

•	Religion and Academia

"Personal Self-Disclosure, Religious Studies Pedagogy, and the Skeptical Mission of the Public University"
Jaffee, Martin S., Steven Leonard Jacobs, Catherine M. Roach, Theodore Louis Trost, Kurtis R. Schaeffer and Tim Murphy
Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 33, no 2 (2004): 27-50
04/2004

•	Religion and Academia

"Prayerful Teaching in Higher Education: A Survey of Themes"
Lynn, Monty L.
Christian Higher Education 3, no. 3 (2004): 261-276
2004
From the Publisher
Prayer is a primary spiritual discipline for Christians. Nonetheless, few contemporary scholarly discussions have ventured into exploring the role of prayer in college teaching. This paper extends the conversation by reviving three themes in writings about prayer and academics and making application of those themes to teaching and learning today.

•	Religion and Academia

"Religion and Public Education: The Bible in the Bible Belt"
Hedrick, Charles W.
Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 31, no. 4 (2002): 90-94
11/2002

•	Religion and Academia

"Religion, Religious Studies and Higher Education: Into the 21st Century"
Henking, Susan E.
Religious Studies Review 30, no. 2 (2004):129-136
2004

•	Religion and Academia

"Service-Learning in Christian Higher Education: Bringing Our Mission to Life"
Schaffer, Regan H.
Christian Higher Education 3, no. 2 (2004): 127-145
2004
From the Publisher
The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to develop a working definition of service-learning, identify the best practices of service-learning in the context of Christian colleges and universities and, based upon that information, develop a model for replication. The study undertaken included: (a) examination of the findings of unpublished data from a survey on service-learning at 90 Christian colleges and universities...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Service Learning

"Spirituality and Pedagogy: Faith and Reason in the Age of Assessment"
Houck, Anita
Spiritus 2, no. 1 (2002): 50-63
2002

•	Religion and Academia

"Student Responses to a Teacher's Religious Goals"
Barnes, Michael Horace
Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin 32, no. 1 (2003): 8-11
2003

•	Teaching Religion

•	Religion and Academia

"Teaching, Learning, & Spirituality"
Laurence, Peter
Spirituality in Higher Education Newsletter 2, no. 2 (2005): 1-6

•	Religion and Academia

"The Christian College Experience and the Development of Spirituality Among Students"
Ma, Stella Y.
Christian Higher Education 2, no. 4 (2003): 321-339
2003
From the Publisher
This study investigated the impact of the Christian college educational environment, both academic and nonacademic, on student spirituality. Nine hundred fifty-three self-reported surveys, representing 18 U.S. Christian colleges and universities, were used. The typical respondent was female, Caucasian, and a resident upperclassman. For the purposes of this exploratory study, spirituality was operationally defined as spiritual...

•	Religion and Academia

"The Opening of the Evangelical Mind"
Wolfe, Alan
The Atlantic Monthly 286, no. 4 (2000): 55-76.
2000

•	Religion and Academia

•	Faith, Society, and Church

"The Place of Religious Studies in the Liberal Arts Curriculum"
Smith, Jonathan Z.
Pedagogy and the Study of Religion, Occasional Papers 2, University of Chicago Divinity School (2004): 6-17
2004

•	Religion and Academia

"Understanding the Study of Religion in Undergraduate Programs of Religious Studies as Religious Education"
Bowman, Lorna
Religious Education 101, no. 2 (2006): 143-146
2006

•	18-22 Year Olds

•	Religion and Academia

•	Religious Education

Academic Freedom and Christian Scholarship
Diekema, Anthony J.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2000
From the Publisher
The dawning of the second millennium finds many Christian colleges and universities in a search for identity. Grappling with the often confused and misunderstood topic of academic freedom is essential to defining this identity. This new book by a widely respected practitioner offers the most articulate and informed discussion of academic freedom available. Anthony Diekema, who has spent the past forty years in higher education,...

•	Religion and Academia

Between Church and State
Fraser, James W.
St. Martin's Griffin, New York, NY
1999
From the Publisher
At the end of the twentieth century, the ongoing battle between religion and public education is once again a burning issue in the United States. In this book, James Fraser shows that though these battles have been going on for as long as there have been public schools, there has never been any consensus about the proper relationship between religion and public education. Looking at the most difficult question of how private...

•	Religion and Academia

Beyond the Classics: Essays in Religious Studies and Liberal Education
Reynolds, Frank E. and Sheryl L. Burkhalter
Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA
1990
From the Publisher
Taken ad seriatim, these essays present a wide range of differing theoretical positions and practical strategies for reform. It is our hope that, when read from this point of view, they will evoke the kind of very specific discussions, debates and actions that will be required if real change is to occur.

•	Teaching Religion

•	Religion and Academia

Called to Teach: The Vocation of the Presbyterian Educator
Ferguson, Duncan S. and Weston William J., editors
Geneva Press, Louisville, KY
2003
From the Publisher
Presbyterian educators Duncan Ferguson and William Weston argue that the calling to teach in higher education is distinctively Reformed and a primary mission of the Presbyterian church. This collection of essays first lays the biblical, theological, and historical foundations for this calling, then explores how it is lived out today in educational institutions -- church-related as well as secular. Concluding that today's church...

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

Christian Higher Education Volume 2 Number 2
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

•	"Christian Higher Education" (journal)

Christian Higher Education Volume 2 Number 3
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

•	"Christian Higher Education" (journal)

Christian Higher Education Volume 2 Number 1
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

•	"Christian Higher Education" (journal)

Christian Higher Education Volume 2 Number 4
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

•	"Christian Higher Education" (journal)

Christian Higher Education Volume 3 Number 1
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Theological Education

•	Teaching Religion

•	"Christian Higher Education" (journal)

Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community
Henry, Douglas V. and Michael D. Beaty, editors
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2006
From the Publisher
Leading scholars explore the role of faith in the university setting.

•	Religion and Academia

Church-Affiliated Higher Education
Stoltzfus, Victor
Pinchpenny Press, Goshen, IN
1992
From the Publisher
Stoltzfus shows us the pressures on religious colleges towards assimilation into the mainstream, but also shows us the surprising strength of those colleges and the unique ways in which each acts to pass on the living tradition of its faith.

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

Conceiving the Christian College: A College President Shares His Vision of Christian Higher Education
Liftin, Duane
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2004
From the Publisher
This book is designed to help those who are interested in Christian higher education explore anew the unique features, opportunities, and contemporary challenges of one distinct type of educational institution - the Christian college. What distinguishes Conceiving the Christian College from the many other books on this subject is its incisive discussion of a set of crucial ideas widely misunderstood in the world of Christian...

•	Religion and Academia

Culture and the Arts in Education
Smith, Ralph A.
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
This collection of Ralph Smith s writings provides a comprehensive overview of his extraordinary contributions to understanding the importance of aesthetics in education. These essays record his lifelong efforts to construct a defensible rationale for the arts in general education and a workable curriculum for art education in our public schools (K 16). The topics covered range from liberal education to arts education, the relationship...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

Curriculum, Religion, and Public Education: Conversations for an Enlarging Public Square
Sears, James T., editor
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1998
From the Publisher
Along the fault line of public education and conservative religious beliefs, this break-through volume explores five curriculum arenas that have been "ground zero" in community debate science and human evolution, textbook selection, sexuality instruction, character development, and outcome-based education. Curriculum, Religion, and Public Education will assist educators, parents, and community leaders in crossing boundaries...

•	Religion and Academia

Educating for Democracy: Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty
Olson, Alan M., David M. Steiner, and Irina S. Tuuli, editors
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, MD
2004
From the Publisher
The central conflicts of the world today are closely related to cultural, traditional and religious differences between nations. As we move to a globalized world, these differences often become magnified, entrenched and the cause of bloody conflict. Growing out of a conference of distinguished scholars from the MiddleEast, Europe and the United States, this volume is a singular contribution to mutual understanding and cooperative...

•	Religion and Academia

Educating for Life: Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning
Wolterstorff, Nicholas P., Gloria Goris Stronks and Clarence W. Joldersma, editors
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2002
From the Publisher
Few people have influenced the development of Christian schools in the Reformed tradition in North America and around the world as much as Nicholas Wolterstorff. As a tribute to his contributions, educators Gloria Goris Stronks and Clarence W. Joldersma have drawn together the world-renowned Christian philosopher's thoughts and reflections on Christian education over the last three decades. The guiding principle in making selections...

•	Religion and Academia

Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education
Wolterstorff, Nicholas
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2004
From the Publisher
In addition to his notable work as a premier Christian philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff has become a leading voice on faith-based higher education. This volume gathers the best of Wolterstorff's essays from the past twenty-five years dealing collectively with the purpose of Christian higher education and the nature of academic learning.

Integrated throughout by the biblical idea of shalom, these nineteen essays present...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religion and Academia

Education as Transformation: Religious Pluralism, Spirituality, & a New Vision for Higher Education in America
Kazanjian, Victor, Jr., and Peter L. Laurence, editors
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2006
From the Publisher
Reflecting a national movement that seeks to create a more holistic model of learning and teaching on college and university campuses, Education as Transformation is a collection of twenty-eight essays written by a wide range of educators - including presidents, chancellors, deans, faculty members, administrators, religious life professionals, students, and other leaders in the field of education - on the themes of religious...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

Education, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation about Religion's Role in Our Shared Life
Marty, Martin E.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
The preeminent authority on religion in America advances an important public dialogue on the proper role of religion in educating and forming the next generation within a pluralist society.

•	Religion and Academia

Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America
Schwehn, Mark R.
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1993
From the Publisher
Exiles From Eden sounds a call to the American academic community to begin seeking a solution to the many problems facing higher education today by rediscovering a proper sense of its vocation. Schwehn argues that the modern university has forgotten its spiritual foundations and that it needs to reappropriate those foundations before it can creatively and responsibly reform itself. The first part of the book offers a critical...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education
Sloan, Douglas
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
1994
From the Publisher
Sloan explores the impact that the Protestant theological renaissance (1925-1960) had on American colleges and universities, focusing in particular on the church's most significant claim to have a continuing voice in higher education. He traces the role of the national ecumenical and denominational organizations, and studies the changing place of college chaplains.

•	Religion and Academia

Faith, Hype and Clarity: Teaching About Religion in American Schools and Colleges
Nash, Robert J.
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1999
From the Publisher
In an effort to provide clarity about the highly charged issue of religion in US classrooms, Nash (College of Education and Social Services, Univ. of Vermont) describes and critiques four diverse religious positions, namely, fundamentalist, prophetic, alternative spiritualities, and post-theist. He uses a narrative approach, asking such questions as, is it workable? is it convincing? does it move people and provide a sense of...

•	Religion and Academia

God's Wisdom: Toward a Theology of Education
Hodgson, Peter
Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY
1999
From the Publisher
Drawing upon classical and modern theological resources as well as postmodern pedagogical theories, Peter Hodgson argues that God's Wisdom, incarnate in paradigmatic teachers such as Jesus of Nazareth, forms and transforms human beings by evoking critical thinking, heightened imagination, and liberating practice. This groundbreaking book reexamines the place of religion in liberal education and the relationship between religious...

•	Religion and Academia

Holocaust Education and the Church-Related College: Restoring Ruptured Traditions
Haynes, Stephen R.
Greenwood Press, Westport, CT
1997
From the Publisher
American church-related liberal arts colleges are dedicated to two traditions: Christian thought and liberal learning. According to Haynes, the moral continuity of these traditions was severed by the Holocaust. Because so many representations of these traditions contributed to the Nazis' ideological and physical efforts to annihilate millions of men, women, and children, it is unclear whether these traditions can any longer...

•	Religion and Academia

Hurrying Toward Zion: Universities, Divinity Schools, and American Protestantism
Cherry, Conrad
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
1995
From the Publisher
The colorful study of university divinity schools in America.
This historical analysis of American Protestant university-related divinity schools tells their story in terms of powerful social and cultural forces that decisively influenced American education in general and Protestant theological education in particular.

•	Religion and Academia

Issues in Teaching Religion and Theology in Great Britain

•	Teaching Religion

•	Religion and Academia

Journal of Beliefs and Values: Studies in Religion and Education, vol. 22, no. 1
The Journal of Beliefs & Values maintains a specific interest in the scriptures of the major world faiths, especially their use in teaching within a multi-cultural context, in school, college and university. Particular emphasis is placed on the interface between the theory and practice of religion and education, including research in formative factors like gender, race and religious pluralism. Each edition of the journal will contain four main sections
...

•	Religion and Academia

Making Sense of the Institutional Mission: Student Cultures at an Evangelical University: A Dissertation

•	Religion and Academia

•	18-22 Year Olds

Mentoring for Mission: Nurturing New Faculty at Church-related Colleges
Simon, Caroline J., Laura Bloxham, Denise Doyle, Mel Hailey, Jane Hokanson Hawks, Kathleen Light, Dominic P. Scibilia, and Ernest Simmons
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2003
From the Publisher
Simon presents Roman Catholic and Protestant perspectives on ways to nurture new faculty at church-related educational institutions, for those involved in administering faculty development programs and for those seeking advice on designing and implementing such programs.

•	Religion and Academia

•	Faculty Development

•	Mentoring

Methodism and Education 1849-1902: J.H. Rigg, Romanism, and Wesleyan Schools
Smith, John T.
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1998
From the Publisher
This thorough history of the Wesleyan Methodist educational efforts in Victorian England discusses the influence of Dr. James Harrison Rigg, Principal of Westminster Training College, who dominated his church and who made friendships with senior politicians of the day. The book also Looks in depth at the influence of anti-Catholicism, which was rampant in the Methodist church of the era.

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

Ministerial Formation in a Multifaith Milieu: Implications of Interfaith Dialogue for Theological Education
Amirtham, Sam and S. Wesley Ariarajah
World Council of Churches, Geneva
1986
From the Publisher
It is generally accepted that theological education and ministerial formation must both take place "in context". The context, in most parts of the world today, is one of religious pluralism where Christians must live in dialogue and grow in commmunity with neighbours of other faiths. Ministers have a crucial role in shaping the attitudes of church people, especially in the area of interfaith relations. How may they be equipped...

•	Religion and Academia

Models for Christian Higher Education: Strategies for Success in the Twenty-First Century
Hughes, Richard T. and William B. Adrian
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1997
From the Publisher
This timely look at the state of Christian higher education in America contains descriptive, historical narratives that explore how fourteen Christian colleges and universities are successfully integrating faith and learning on their campuses despite the challenges posed by the increasingly pluralistic nature of modern culture. Written by respected representatives from seven major faith traditions - Roman Catholic, Lutheran,...

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

Multiculturalism and the Academic Study of Religion in the Schools

•	Religion and Academia

Organizing a Christian Mind: A Theology of Higher Education
Carmody, Denise Lardner
Trinity Press, Valley Forge, PA
1996
From the Publisher
"The sadness I feel," writes Denise Carmody, "stems from watching the capitulation of good schools, both Christian and secular, to the pragmatism of recent times and their concomitant loss of a pervasive vision of their enterprise." Such capitulation has produced a serious crisis in American higher education, including also church-sponsored higher education, leading to a preoccupation with research and publication instead of...

•	Religion and Academia

Professing in the Postmodern Academy: Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges
Haynes, Stephen R., editor
Baylor University Press, Waco, TX
2002
From the Publisher
This work examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members critically committed to the future of church-related institutions. The book includes articles on a variety of topics from members of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College, a project that has involved ninety church-related institutions since 1996.

•	Religion and Academia

Religion in Higher Education: The Politics of the Multifaith Campus
Gilliat-Ray, Sophie
Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington, VT
2000
From the Publisher
Examines how the higher education sector in Britain has responded to changes due to religious diversity. Takes particular account of the perspectives of chaplains in higher education, and also considers the perspectives of religious, student-run, and academic organizations concerned with religion in universities. Explores the role that religion plays in shaping a new generation of British Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, and examines...

•	Religion and Academia

Religion in the Academy

•	Religion and Academia

Religion on Campus
Cherry, Conrad, Betty A. DeBerg, and Amanda Porterfield
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
2003
From the Publisher
The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to today's undergraduates.

To explore firsthand how college students understand, practice, and learn about religion, the authors visited four very different U.S. campuses: a Roman Catholic...

•	Religion and Academia

Religion, Scholarship, & Higher Education: Perspectives, Models, and Future Prospects
Sterk, Andrea, editor
University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN
2002
From the Publisher
Underneath its dry, scholarly title, this collection of essays is a lively read not only for scholars, institutional administrators and foundation officers, but for anyone interested in the evolving role of religion in American intellectual life over the last half century. The product of a three-year Lilly Foundation Seminar on Religion and Higher Education, this well-edited book is comprised of short, thought-provoking pieces...

•	Religion and Academia

Religious Advocacy and American History
Kuklick, Bruce and D.G. Hart, editors
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1997
From the Publisher
Religious Advocacy and American History explores the general question of bias and objectivity in higher learning from the perspective of the role of religious convictions in the study of American history. The contributors to this book, many of whom are leading historians of American religion and culture, address primarily two related questions. First, how do personal religious convictions influence one's own research, writing,...

•	Religion and Academia

Religious and Theological Studies in American Higher Education: A Pilot Study

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

Religious Higher Education in the United States: A Source Book
Hunt, Thomas C. and James C. Carper, editors
Garland Publishing, New York, NY
1996
From the Publisher
Higher education today suffers from lack of a clearly articulated purpose-a deficiency particularly challenging to religious-affiliated institutions. What is the relationship of secular learning to the faith that originally undergirded these institutions? This book offers the reader answers to this and other major questions currently facing denomination-affiliated institutions of higher education. Following a chapter on civil...

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

Religious Pluralism in the Academy: Opening the Dialogue
Nash, Robert J.
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2001
From the Publisher
This book argues that American colleges and universities need to enlarge their understanding of pluralism and multiculturalism by sponsoring open, challenging, spiritually and educationally revitalizing conversations among students about genuine religious difference. Although religious difference is a pivotal component of cultural pluralism, too often today it gets ignored, marginalized, or sugar-coated in higher education....

•	18-22 Year Olds

•	Religion and Academia

Religious Studies, Theology, and the University: Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain
Cady, Linell E. and Delwin Brown, editors
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
2002
From the Publisher
This collection explores the highly contested relationship of religious studies and theology and the place of each, if any, in secular institutions of higher education. The founding narrative of religious studies, with its sharp distinction between teaching religion and teaching about religion, grows less compelling in the face of globalization and the erosion of modernism. These essays take up the challenge of thinking through...

•	Religion and Academia

Should God Get Tenure? Essays on Religion & Higher Education
Gill, David W., editor
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
1997
From the Publisher
During the twentieth century, theological and religious perspectives have been marginalized, if not utterly excluded, in many of our colleges and universities. The essays in this book argue in different ways for the critical, appreciative, inclusion of theological and religious perspectives in higher education. The contributors believe that even in our secular, religiously disestablished era, religion and God continue to occupy...

•	Religion and Academia

Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Smith, Christian with Melinda Lundquist Denton
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
"Soul Searching tells the definitive story of the religious and spiritual lives of contemporary American teenagers. It reports the findings of the National Study of Youth and Religion, the largest and most detailed study of teenagers and religion ever undertaken. Based on a nationwide telephone survey of teens and their parents, as well as in-depth face-to-face interviews with more than 250 of the survey respondents, Soul Searching...

•	18-22 Year Olds

•	Religion and Academia

Spirituality and the Curriculum
Thatcher, Adrian, editor
Cassell, London and New York
1999
From the Publisher
The contributors to "Spirituality and the Curriculum" explore ways in which spirituality can be diverted from its confinement as an academic subject and be incorporated into education to help children develop in this important area of human endeavour.

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religion and Academia

Taking Religion to School: Christian Theology and Secular Education
Webb, Stephen H.
Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, MI
2000
From the Publisher
In the modern university, religion is often taken to school--primarily in the sense of being critiqued, disciplined, and domesticated. In this provocative book, Stephen Webb steps into the middle of current controversies about the place of religion in secular high schools and colleges. Speaking explicitly as a Christian theologian, but also as one who accepts the reality of religious pluralism, Webb argues that the teaching...

•	Religion and Academia

Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology

•	Grading

•	Course Design

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

•	Adult Learners

•	"Teaching Theology and Religion" (Wabash journal)

Teaching as An Act of Faith
Migliazzo, Arlin C.
Fordham University Press, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
Interest in church-related higher education has increased greatly in recent years. Teaching as an Act of Faith is a practical guidebook on strategies to incarnate mission and epitomize theological and theoretical reflection in the classroom. In original essays, distinguished practitioners from fourteen liberal arts disciplines and Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, Anabaptist, Lutheran, and Reformed traditions demonstrate how they have...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: Meditations on the Classroom
Dalke, Anne French
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2002
From the Publisher
Dalke brings together a collection of accounts written by herself, students and colleagues. These are incorporated into seven chapters corresponding to the seven stages of Dalke's reflection about teaching and learning in the liberal arts classroom. The text explores the evolution of Dalke's approach to teaching; Dalke's decision to redesign her classes using the model of the Quaker Meeting for Business; difficulties she faced...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Religion and Academia

•	18-22 Year Olds

The Catholic University as Promise and Project: Reflections in a Jesuit Idiom
Buckley, Michael J., S.J.
Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC
1998
From the Publisher
The remarkable development of the Catholic university in the United States has raised questions about its continued identity, its promise, and its academic constituents. Michael J. Buckley, S.J., explores these issues, especially as they have been experienced in the history and contemporary commitments of Jesuit higher education.

•	Religion and Academia

The Christian College: A History of Protestant Higher Education in America, 2nd Edition
Ringenberg, William C.
Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI
2006
From the Publisher
When it first appeared in 1984 The Christian College was the first modern comprehensive history of Protestant higher education in America. Now this second edition updates the history, featuring a new chapter on the developments of the past two decades, a major introduction by Mark Noll, a new preface and epilogue, and a series of instructive appendices.

•	Religion and Academia

The Idea of a Catholic University
O'Brien, George Dennis
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
2002
From the Publisher
George Bernard Shaw thought that a Catholic university was a contradiction in terms--"university" represents intellectual freedom and "Catholic" represents dogmatic belief. Scholars, university administrators, and even the Vatican have staked out positions debating Shaw's observation. In this refreshing book, George Dennis O'Brien argues that contradiction arises both from the secular university's limited concept of academic...

•	Religion and Academia

The Idea of a University
Newman, John Henry
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
1996
From the Publisher
Since its publication almost 150 years ago, John Henry Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University has had extraordinary influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. This important and accessible edition includes new essays by five leading scholars who explore the background and present day relevance of Cardinal Newman's themes, a biographical sketch of his life, questions for discussion, expanded notes, and a glossary...

•	Religion and Academia

The Life of the Mind: A Christian Perspective
Williams, Clifford
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2002

•	Theological Education

•	Faith, Society, and Church

•	18-22 Year Olds

•	Religion and Academia

The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
Reuben, Julie A.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
1996
From the Publisher
What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century as reformers introduced a new kind of university - one dedicated to free inquiry and the advancement of knowledge. In the first major study of moral education in American universities. Julie Reuben examines the consequences of these debates for modern intellectual life. Based on extensive research...

•	The Academy

•	Religion and Academia

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
Marsden, George M.
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
At the end of his 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, George Marsden advanced a modest proposal for an enhanced role for religious faith in today's scholarship. This "unscientific postscript" helped spark a heated debate that spilled out of the pages of academic journals and The Chronicle of Higher Education into mainstream media such as The New York Times, and marked Marsden as one of the leading participants in...

•	Religion and Academia

The Sacred and The Secular University
Roberts, Jon H. and James Turner
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
2000
From the Publisher
American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fundamental changes--changes that helped to create the modern university we know today. Most significantly, the study of the sciences and the humanities effectively dissolved the Protestant framework of learning by introducing a new secularized curriculum. This secularization...

•	Theological Education

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The Secularization of the Academy
Marsden, George M. and Bradley J. Longfield, editors
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1992
From the Publisher
A searching exploration of a century and a half of higher education in American culture. This book will enliven, and inform, the wide-ranging discussion now taking place. Bringing together eleven new essays--most published here for the first time--on the secularization of American, British, and Canadian higher education, this text maps some of the major contours of a largely unexplored topic. It focuses on the histories of leading...

•	Religion and Academia

The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief
Marsden, George M.
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1994
From the Publisher
In this bold reexamination of the role of religion in higher education, Marsden provides a fascinating look at the histories of many pacesetting universities, including Harvard, Yale, and the University of California at Berkeley. The author argues for a new place for traditional religious perspectives in American universities.

•	Religion and Academia

The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education
Hart, D.G.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
1999
From the Publisher
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 were especially influential in arguing for the importance of religion to a truly "liberal" education, staffing departments and designing curricula to reflect their own...

•	Teaching Religion

•	Religion and Academia

The Vocation of a Christian Scholar
Hughes, Richard T.
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
2005
From the Publisher
Richard T. Hughes's highly praised book on the relationship between Christian faith and secular learning originally published as "How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind" is now available in a revised edition that brilliantly incorporates recent interest in the topic of vocation.While the vocational dimensions of the earlier book were implicit, this revised edition makes them explicit. In the first of two completely...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition
Carey, Patrick W. and Earl C. Muller, S.J., editors
Crossroads, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
The aim of this book is both to raise questions about the contemporary theological enterprise and to suggest ways to improve theological education at the college, seminary, and graduate levels. With that in mind the editors have here gathered together important essays by leading theologians and prominent bishops that provide expert assessment of the present state of Catholic theological education and its future prospects, treating...

•	Theological Education

•	Religion and Academia

Transforming Campus Life: Reflections on Spirituality & Religious Pluralism
Miller, Vachel W. and Merle M. Ryan, editors
Peter Lang, New York, NY
2001
From the Publisher
How can campus life become more hospitable to the human spirit? This book invites everyone concerned with the quality and meaning of campus life to engage in new conversations about the spiritual and religious dimensions of diversity, leadership, student development, and learning. This book challenges conventions in higher education that neglect religious identity and spiritual exploration while perpetuating disconnection, competition,...

•	Religion and Academia

•	18-22 Year Olds

The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness
Christopher M. Bache
State University of New York Press
2008
From the Publisher
Describes the emergence of powerful fields of consciousness that influence students learning and personal transformation.
This pioneering work in teaching and transpersonal psychology explores the dynamics of collective consciousness in the classroom. Combining scientific research with personal accounts collected over thirty years, Christopher M. Bache examines the subtle influences that radiate invisibly around teachers...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Method and Theory

•	Religion and Academia

The State of the University; Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God
Hauerwas, Stanley
Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA
2007
From the Publisher
In this book, controversial and world-renowned theologian, Stanley Hauerwas, tackles the issue of theology being sidelined as a necessary discipline in the modern university. It is an attempt to reclaim the knowledge of God as just that knowledge.

* Questions why theology is no longer considered a necessary subject in the modern university, and explores the role it should play in the development of our knowledge...

•	The Academy

•	Religion and Academia

"Theorizing in the Introductory Course: A Survey of Resources"
McCutcheon, Russell T.
In Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001)
2001

•	Teaching Religion

•	Religion and Academia

Where is Knowing Going? The Horizons of the Knowing Subject
From the Publisher

Catholic institutions of higher learning are at a crossroads: How can they remain true to their roots while recognizing that many of their administrations, faculties, and student bodies have little connection with the tradition? How can these institutions remain competitive while maintaining a relationship to the Church?

During the past several years, Catholic theologian John C. Haughey, SJ, has conducted groundbreaking...

•	Religion and Academia

Higher Education Reconceived: A Geography of Change
Sherrie Reynolds and Toni Craven
TCU Press, Forth Worth, TX
2009
From The Publisher
In "Higher Education Reconceived: A Geography of Change", authors Sherrie Reynolds and Toni Craven examine the process of change in higher education as they engage the reader in conversation about how we relate to ourselves and to one another. They draw on modern and post-modern elements of higher education as well as personal narratives to address personal change, emergent change, and changing ideas about learning, curriculum,...

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	The Academy

•	Religion and Academia

Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education
From the Publisher

Much of the confusion and meaninglessness of the twenty-first century stems from the fragmentation of knowledge. Our postmodern times cry out for a return to wholeness. Enter Stratford Caldecott, who calls for renewal in education in Beauty for Truth's Sake. By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and viewing disciplines such as science and mathematics through a poetic lens, the author explains that unity is present within...

•	Religion and Academia

The Spirit of Service: Exploring Faith, Service, and Social Justice in Higher Education
Johnson, Brian T. and Carolyn R. O'Grady, editors
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
2006
From the Publisher
In The Spirit of Service , the contributing authors explore the intersection of faith, service, and social justice in higher education. Reflecting upon the role that higher education plays in preparing future generations of citizens and leaders, this book asserts that spirituality and values necessarily involve one's person and that educators must begin to connect student learning with the human experiences of faith, service,...

•	Critical Pedagogies

•	Religion and Academia

The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education
Klassen, Norman and Jens Zimmermann
Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI
2006
From the Publisher
Chronicles the development of the intellectual culture of the Western university and proposes an approach to university education that keeps faith with central Christian doctrines.

•	Religion and Academia

Gladly Learn, Gladly Teach: Living Out One's Calling in the 21st-Century Academy
Dunaway, John Marson, editor
Mercer University Press, Macon, GA
2005
From the Publisher
These essays come from scholars in a wide variety of fields: not just theology, but law, literature, political science, education, and philosophy. The essayists are teacher-scholars who genuinely seek to live out the sometimes-competing vocations of professor and believer. Though most of them teach in church-related institutions, they not only affirm the need for a clear theological vision on which to base institutional and...

•	Religion and Academia

•	Vocation of Teaching

Spirituality in Higher Education
Questions about meaning and purpose are as old as humans, and in the earliest days of higher education, the search for truth was the ultimate journey of the student. Over the decades, though, the academy has often shunned the spiritual aspect of a student's education. Whether that is to avoid controversy or to protect from acknowledging that all is not known, there is a predisposition to avoid talking about spirituality in the academy. Regardless,...

•	Religion and Academia

Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education
Chickering, Arthur W., Jon C. Dalton, and Liesa Stamm
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2006
From the Publisher
Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education is a comprehensive resource that explores the theory and research and examines the current initiatives on the topic of spirituality in higher education. The book provides an array of illustrative examples to guide interventions in curriculum, student affairs, community partnerships, assessment, and policy issues. The authors cover the social and historical background...

•	Religion and Academia

It's All About Jesus! Faith as an Oppositional Collegiate Subculture
Peter Magolda and Kelsey Ebben Gross
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2009
From the Publisher

What it is like to be a collegian involved in a Christian organization on a public college campus? What roles do Christian organizations play in the lives of college students enrolled in a public college? What are evangelical student organizations political agendas, and how do they mobilize members to advance these agendas? What is the optimal equilibrium between the secular and the sacred within public higher education?...

•	Religion and Academia

•	18-22 Year Olds

Teaching and Learning in College Introductory Religion Courses
Walvoord, Barbara E.
Blackwell Publishing, Malden MA
2008
From the Publisher
Introductory courses in theology and religion are taught at most colleges and universities across the US and UK. From public to private, non-sectarian to faith-based institutions, theology courses fulfill humanities general education requirements, and provide a foundational education for students intending further theological study. This book describes the best and most effective ways of teaching these courses. Offering practical,...

•	General Best Practices

•	Religion and Academia

•	18-22 Year Olds

Researching RE Teachers. RE Teachers as Researchers
Bakker, Cok, and Hans-Gnter Heimbrock
Waxmann Publishing, New York, NY
2007
From the Publisher
The quality of religious education in schools is highly influenced by the quality of teacher practice. Especially in times of cultural change and pluralisation we need better knowledge about the actual practice in schools. The contributions of this volume present the results of a research project on religious education teachers in Europe set up by the ENRECA group during the last years.
But who is teacher and who is researcher?...

•	Religion and Academia

Confucian Tradition and Global Education
de Bary, Wm. Theodore
Columbia University Press, New York, NY
2007
From the Publisher
Drawn from a series of lectures that Wm. Theodore de Bary delivered in honor of the Chinese philosopher Tang Junyi, Confucian Tradition is a unique synthesis of essay and debate concerning the future of Chinese education and the potential political uses of Confucianism in the contemporary world.

•	Diversity

•	Religion and Academia

•	Method and Theory

Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
M. Jacqui Alexander
Duke University Press, Durham, NC
2005
From the Publisher

M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to a number of critical imperatives...

•	The Academy

•	Religion and Academia

Religion and the Academy

•	Religion and Academia

Journal of Beliefs and Values: Studies in Religion and Education, vol. 24, no. 1
The Journal of Beliefs & Values maintains a specific interest in the scriptures of the major world faiths, especially their use in teaching within a multi-cultural context, in school, college and university. Particular emphasis is placed on the interface between the theory and practice of religion and education, including research in formative factors like gender, race and religious pluralism. Each edition of the journal will contain four main sections
...

•	Religion and Academia

Journal of Beliefs and Values: Studies in Religion and Education, vol. 24, no. 2
The Journal of Beliefs & Values maintains a specific interest in the scriptures of the major world faiths, especially their use in teaching within a multi-cultural context, in school, college and university. Particular emphasis is placed on the interface between the theory and practice of religion and education, including research in formative factors like gender, race and religious pluralism. Each edition of the journal will contain four main sections
...

•	Religion and Academia

Journal of Beliefs and Values: Studies in Religion and Education, vol. 24, no. 3
The Journal of Beliefs & Values maintains a specific interest in the scriptures of the major world faiths, especially their use in teaching within a multi-cultural context, in school, college and university. Particular emphasis is placed on the interface between the theory and practice of religion and education, including research in formative factors like gender, race and religious pluralism. Each edition of the journal will contain four main sections
...

•	Religion and Academia

The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue
Noll, Mark A., and James Turner
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, MI
2008
From the Publisher
Evangelicals and Roman Catholics have been responsible for the establishment of many colleges and universities in America. Until recently, however, they have taken very different approaches to the subject of education and have viewed one another's traditions with suspicion. In this volume, Mark Noll and James Turner offer critical but appreciative reassessments of the two traditions. Noll, writing from an evangelical perspective,...

•	Religion and Academia

"Our "Special Promise" as Teachers: Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance"
McCutcheon, Russell T.
In Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001)
2001

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

"Methods and Theories in the Classroom: Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals"
McCutcheon, Russell T.
In Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001)
2001

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

"Redescribing "Religion and ..." Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem"
McCutcheon, Russell T.
In Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001)
2001

•	Teaching Religion

•	Religion and Academia

Encountering Faith in the Classroom: Turning Difficult Discussions into Constructive Engagement
Diamond, Miriam Rosalyn
Stylus Publishing, LLC, Sterling, VA
2008
From the Publisher
When faculty unexpectedly encounter students' religious ideologies in the classroom, they may respond with apprehension, frustration, dread, or concern. Instructors may view this exchange as a confrontation that threatens the very heart of empirical study, and worry that this will lead to a dead-end in the learning process.
The purpose of this book is to explore what happens and what can happen in the higher education,...

•	Religion and Academia

Education Between Two Worlds
Meiklejohn, Alexander
Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ
2005
From the Publisher
This classic and rather poignant argument that education is the answer to the questions posed by Anglo-Saxon cultures was written by Meiklejohn (late president of Amherst College and founder of the U. of Wisconsin's Experimental College) as the horrors of World War II were a daily event. In such a time and with such a background, it is no surprise Meiklejohn freely ties theory to practice, policy, and pedagogy as he describes...

•	The Academy

•	Religion and Academia

Christian Higher Education Volume 3 Number 2
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...

•	"Christian Higher Education" (journal)

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

•	Theological Education

Christian Higher Education Volume 3 Number 3
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...

•	"Christian Higher Education" (journal)

•	Religion and Academia

•	Theological Education

•	Teaching Religion

Christian Higher Education Volume 3 Number 4
From the Publisher
Christian Higher Education is a peer reviewed archival journal that features articles on developments being created and tested by those engaged in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services. Each issue offers...

•	"Christian Higher Education" (journal)

•	Religion and Academia

•	Theological Education

•	Teaching Religion

The Bible and the University, Volume 8
Jeffrey, David Lyle, C. Stephen Evans and Craig G. Bartholomew, editors
Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI
2007
From the Publisher
It is well known that the Western university gradually evolved from the monastic stadium via the cathedral schools of the twelfth century to become the remarkably vigorous and interdisciplinary European institutions of higher learning that transformed Christian intellectual culture in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It is equally well known that subsequent disciplinary developments in higher education, including the...

•	Religion and Academia

How to Help Students Confront Life's 'Big Questions'
Walvoord, Barbara E.
In The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, DC, August 15, 2008)
2008

•	18-22 Year Olds

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

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