{"product_id":"fifty-years-of-religious-studies-in-canada-a-personal-retrospective-9781771121156","title":"Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada: A Personal Retrospective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions as well as religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this change in this memoir of his forty-five-year career in the development of religious studies as a new academic field in Canada. He also addresses the shift from theology classes in seminaries to non-sectarian religious studies faculties of arts and humanities; the birth and growth of departments across Canada from the 1960s to the present; the contribution of McMaster University to religious studies in Canada and Coward's Ph.D. experience there; the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria; and the future of religious studies as a truly interdisciplinary enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoward's retrospective, while not a history as such, documents information from his varied experience and wide network of colleagues that is essential for a future formal history of the discipline. His story is both personally engaging and richly informative about the development of the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada: A Personal Retrospective\u003c\/i\u003e by Harold Coward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Early Days: From Theology in Seminaries to Non-Sectarian Religious Studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. The Golden Decade 1966-1976\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. McMaster Days: My Personal Experiences of McMaster in the Early 1970s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. McMaster's Contribution to Religious Studies in Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Growing into Maturity: Development of Religious Studies Departments from the Late 1970s to the Present\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. Taking Seriously Our Interdisciplinary Heritage: The Future of Religious Studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863821222231,"sku":"9781771121156","price":73.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781771121156.jpg?v=1759921182","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fifty-years-of-religious-studies-in-canada-a-personal-retrospective-9781771121156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}