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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 277 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x12 mm, kaal: 298 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jan-2003
  • Kirjastus: University of Notre Dame Press
  • ISBN-10: 0268033579
  • ISBN-13: 9780268033576
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 277 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x12 mm, kaal: 298 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jan-2003
  • Kirjastus: University of Notre Dame Press
  • ISBN-10: 0268033579
  • ISBN-13: 9780268033576
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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.

“James Turner’s diptych of interrelated essays—which link carefully wrought episodes in the nineteenth-century past of American higher education with future prospects for the role of religiously rooted inquiry in academic research—shed considerable and often unexpected light on the historically contingent disciplinary distinctions, epistemological assumptions, and research practices of university life today. Turner is not simply a first-rate intellectual historian, but a first-rate intellectual.” —Brad Gregory, Stanford University 
 
“Ever since Cardinal Newman wrote The Idea of a University and George Bernard Shaw quipped that a Catholic university is a contradiction in terms, scholars have quarreled about the relation between knowledge and belief. In Language, Religion, Knowledge one of the most erudite of American historians explores topics ranging from the intricate connections between philology and historicism to the ironic consequences of secularization for higher education. All readers will benefit from pondering James Turner’s provocative ideas about the role religion has played—and the role Catholicism should play today—in educational institutions and in American culture more broadly.” —James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University
 
“The chapters of Language, Religion, Knowledge measure up to the very high standards of clear, expressive, and accessible prose that is a hallmark of James Turner’s writing. This book could become a leading volume in the general consideration of religion and the intellectual life.” —Mark Noll, Wheaton College

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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

"Language, Religion, Knowledge: Past and Present is not a book for the faint-hearted or uninformed. But for those willing to consider the issues involved it is great fun not by any means a quick read, but certainly an entertaining and thought-provoking one. The reaction is a desire both to applaud and argue, often at the same time." History: Reviews of New Books

"As always, Turner's prose is steady and genteel, and his own voice comes through in these essays with humor and wit. His introduction and the brief commentaries before each essay tie the book together nicely. Turner demonstrates that solid intellectual history contributes much to our understanding of the past and the present." ISIS

"Anyone involved in intellectual pursuits will find Turner's ideas a challenge." Catholic Library World

"In this enlightening, two-century tour of American academia, readers learn about the university's early life in America and its significance for scholars of all fields today." Science & Theology News

Introduction 1(10)
PART ONE HISTORICAL STUDIES
Language, Religion, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America: The Curious Case of Andrews Norton
11(20)
Charles Hodge in the Intellectual Weather of the Nineteenth Century
31(19)
Secularization and Sacralization: Some Religious Origins of the Secular Humanities Curriculum, 1850--1900
50(19)
The ``German Model'' and the Graduate School: The University of Michigan and the Origin Myth of the American University (written with Paul Bernard)
69(26)
The Forgotten History of the Research Ideal
95(14)
PART TWO CONTEMPORARY INTERVENTIONS
Catholicism and Modern Scholarship: A Historical Sketch
109(12)
The Evangelical Intellectual Revival
121(8)
The Catholic University in Modern Academe: Challenge and Dilemma
129(14)
Catholic Intellectual Traditions and Contemporary Scholarship
143(14)
Notes 157(39)
Index 196
James Turner is emeritus Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C, Professor of Humanities at the University of Notre Dame.