Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education

Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education explores foundational issues surrounding the interaction of religion and the academy in the twenty-first century. Featuring the work of eighteen scholars from diverse institutional, disciplinary, and religious backgrounds, this outstanding collection of essays issues from a three-year Lilly Seminar on Religion and Higher Education. Reflecting the diversity of the seminar participants, this insightful volume presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the role of religion in higher education and different approaches to religiously informed scholarship and teaching.

Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education is distinctive in its orientation toward the personal and the practical. Contributors use personal examples to demonstrate how individual religious beliefs and backgrounds shape the way an educator approaches research and teaching.

The first part of the book addresses foundational issues, offering a range of perspectives on the current state of affairs and future prospects for the interrelation of religion and aca

Contributors

vii

Preface

xiii

Part I. Foundational Issues and Concerns

Scholarship Grounded in Religion

3

(13)

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Does Religion Have Anything Worth Saying to Scholars?

16

(6)

James Turner

The Potential for Pluralism: Religious Responses to the Triumph of Theory and Method in American Academic Culture

22

(18)

Alan Wolfe

Enough Already: Universities Do Not Need More Christianity

40

(10)

David A. Hollinger

Where Are the Universities of Tomorrow?

50

(13)

Mark R. Schwehn

Part II. Religion and Scholarship: Disciplinary Perspectives

Faith Histories

63

(13)

John McGreevy

Sociology and the Study of Religion

76

(13)

Nancy T. Ammerman

What We Make of a Diminished Thing: Religion and Literary Scholarship

89

(28)

Roger Lundin

Historical Theology Today and Tomorrow

117

(11)

Brian E. Daley

Institutions and Sacraments: The Catholic Tradition and Political Science

128

(14)

Clarke E. Cochran

Selving Faith: Feminist Theory and Feminist Theology Rethink the Self

142

(8)

Serene Jones

Religious Concerns in Scholarship: Engaged Fallibilism in Practice

150

(11)

Richard J. Bernstein

Part III. Religious Perspectives and Teaching: Reflections on Practice

Teaching History as a Christian

161

(11)

Mark A. Noll

Questions of Teaching

172

(12)

Denis Donoghue

Teaching and Religion in Sociology

184

(9)

Robert Wuthnow

Does, or Should, Teaching Reflect the Religious Perspective of the Teacher?

193

(9)

Jean Bethke Elshtain

``Stopping the Heart'': The Spiritual Search of Students and the Challenge to a Professor in an Undergraduate Literature Class

202

(29)

Susan Handelman

Concluding Reflections on the Lilly Seminar

231

(16)

Francis Oakley

Epilogue

247

(8)

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Members of the Lilly Seminar on Religion and Higher Education

255

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