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Searching the Soul of the College and University in America
Religious and Democratic Covenants and Controversies
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2023
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This is a story of religious and democratic covenants and controversies in the foundations of the American nation and in the soul of its colleges and universities. Its powers are religion and politics in America, the creeds and convictions constituting the beliefs and theologies of citizens and religious people. Critically overlapping and entangled democratic beliefs and convictions distinctly define the American body politic and are in the foundation of the nation and its colleges and universities. In that story, an unmistakable feature and idea is that the religion of the Republic in America is intertwined with and parallel to a symbiotic religion of the academy in its colleges and universities.
The nation and its colleges share the same space, history, and religious and democratic heralds and heroes. Democratic and political theories and philosophies, and competing and cooperating religious faiths and impulses, have been reflected both the Republic and in battles waged about the essential nature of the American nation and its colleges and universities. These traits constitute how America, its public and its citizens, in and outside the gates of the academy, have wrestled with the aspirations and ideals that define civic duty, the commons, and the common good.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2423-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2424-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
346
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Religion in the American College No access Pages 13 - 38
The Religion of the Republic and the American Enlightenment No access Pages 39 - 66
John Witherspoon and Princeton No access Pages 67 - 90
Four Score and Seven No access Pages 91 - 116
The Watershed of the Civil War and What It Wrought No access Pages 117 - 144
Religious Underpinnings of Liberal and Social Democracy No access Pages 145 - 172
The Curses and Blessings of Religious and Democratic Pluralism No access Pages 173 - 214
The Puzzle of Pluralism and an “Almost Chosen People” No access Pages 215 - 256
The Contemporary Religion of the Republic No access Pages 257 - 284
