Decline of the Secular University

Name: Decline of the Secular University
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ISBN: 9780195306958

ISBN-10: 0195306953

ISBN-13: 9780195306958

Edition: 2006

Authors: C. John Sommerville

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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 leadership in political, cultural, social, and even scientific arenas. In The Decline of the Secular University, C. John Sommerville explores several different ways in which the secular university fails in its mission through its trivialization of religion. He notes how little attention is being given to defining the human, so crucial in all aspects of professional education. He alerts us to problems…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/29/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 8.31" wide x 5.79" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Sommerville is professor of English history, Emeritus, at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. His other books include The News Revolution in England and The Secularization of Early Modern England.




The Marginalization of Our Universities



Trouble Defining the Human



Trouble Maintaining the Fact/Value Dichotomy



Trouble Eliminating Religion



Trouble Judging Religions



Science Gets Strange



Teaching about Secularism, or Teaching Secularism?



Losing a Sense of History



Moralizing as a Bad Habit



How Religious Scholars Could Contribute



Postsecularism and the University



A Vision of the Future


Index