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Professor Leahy recounts the academic tensions between religious beliefs and intellectual inquiry, and explore the social changes that have affected higher education and American Catholicism throughout this century. He attempts to explain why the significant growth of Catholic colleges and universities was not always matched by concomitant academic esteem in the larger world of American higher education.

Adapting to America

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    A Paperback by William P. Leahy

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      Publisher Georgetown University Press
      Published 1 January 1991
      ISBN-13 9780878405046
      978-0878405046
      ISBN-10 0878405046

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      Book Synopsis

      Professor Leahy recounts the academic tensions between religious beliefs and intellectual inquiry, and explore the social changes that have affected higher education and American Catholicism throughout this century. He attempts to explain why the significant growth of Catholic colleges and universities was not always matched by concomitant academic esteem in the larger world of American higher education.

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