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041 _aeng
050 _aLA226
_b.M34 1994
100 _aMarsden, George M.
245 4 _aThe Soul of the American University :
_bFrom Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief /
_cGeorge M. Marsden
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c1994
300 _axiv, 462 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aThe establishment of protestant nonsectarianism : The burden of Christendom: seventeenth-century Harvard -- The new queen of the sciences and the new Republic -- Two kinds of sectarianism -- A righteous consensus, Whig style -- Defining the American university in a scientific age : American practicality and Germanic ideals: two visions for reform -- The Christian legacy in the epoch of science -- Positive Christianity versus Positivism at Noah Porter's Yale -- California: revolution without much ideology -- Methodological secularization and its Christian rationale at Hopkins -- Liberal Protestantism at Michigan: New England intentions with Jeffersonian results -- Harvard and the religion of humanity -- Holding the line at Princeton -- Making the world safe from the traditionalist establishment -- The low-church idea of a university -- When the tie no longer binds : The trouble with the old-time religion -- The elusive ideal of academic freedom -- The Fundamentalist menace -- The obstacles to a Christian presence -- Outsiders -- Searching for a soul -- A church with the soul of a nation -- Liberal Protestantism without Protestantism.
650 _aEducation, Higher—Aims and objectives—United States—History.Protestant churches—United States—History.Liberalism (Religion)—United States—Protestant churches—History.
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