Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928

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Oxford University Press, 29.10.1998 - 368 Seiten
This book argues against the conventional idea that Protestantism effectively ceased to play an important role in American higher education around the end of the 19th century. Employing Princeton as an example, the study shows that Protestantism was not abandoned but rather modified to conform to the educational values and intellectual standards of the modern university. Drawing upon a wealth of neglected primary sources, Kemeny sheds new light on the role of religion in higher education by examining what was happening both inside and outside the classroom, and by illustrating that religious and secular commitments were not neatly divisible but rather commingled.
 

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Introduction
3
Chapter 1 Education and Religion in the Nations Service 18681888
17
Chapter 2 Religion and University Aspirations 18681888
59
Chapter 3 The Travails of Becoming a University 18881902
87
Chapter 4 Making the University Safe for Democracy 19021910
127
Chapter 5 Religion and the Modern American University 19101928
173
Epilogue
221
Notes
235
Works Cited
315
Index
347
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Seite 327 - THE FINAL PHILOSOPHY ; or, System of Perfectible Knowledge issuing from the Harmony of Science and Religion. By Charles W. Shields, DD, Professor in Princeton College. Royal 8vo, pp. viii. and 610, cloth. 1878. 18s.

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P.C. Kemeny is Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.

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