Faithful Imagination in the Academy Explorations in Religious Belief and Scholarship

In the past thirty years there has been a sea change in North American intellectual life regarding the role of religious commitments in academic endeavors. Driven partly by postmodernism and the fragmentation of knowledge and partly by the democratization of the academy in which different voices are celebrated, the appropriate role that religion should play is contested. Some academics insist that religion cannot and must not have a place at the academic table; others insist that religious values should drive the argument.

Janel M. Curry is professor of geography and dean for research and scholarship at Calvin College. Ronald A. Wells is director of the Maryville Symposium of Faith and the Liberal Arts at Maryville College.