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Book SynopsisHigher education and university-based research rank among the main forces shaping our world. Focusing on knowledge rather than institutions, this work offers an insight into how higher learning took its present form and the direction in which it is headed.
Trade Review“...Language, Religion, Knowledge is a book that deserves a wide audience among scholars of higher learning in America. It challenges a variety of assumptions about the past and present of the American university and seeks to create a discourse across academic disciplines about its future.” —History of Education Quarterly
“Language, Religion, Knowledge: Past and Present is not a book for the faint-hearted or uninformed. But for those willing to consider the issues involved it is great fun — not by any means a quick read, but certainly an entertaining and thought-provoking one. The reaction is a desire both to applaud and argue, often at the same time.” —History: Reviews of New Books
“As always, Turner’s prose is steady and genteel, and his own voice comes through in these essays with humor and wit. His introduction and the brief commentaries before each essay tie the book together nicely. Turner demonstrates that solid intellectual history contributes much to our understanding of the past and the present.” —ISIS
“Anyone involved in intellectual pursuits will find Turner’s ideas a challenge.” —Catholic Library World
“In this enlightening, two-century tour of American academia, readers learn about the university’s early life in America and its significance for scholars of all fields today.” —Science & Theology News
Table of ContentsLanguage, knowledge, and religion in 19th-century America - the curious case of Andrews Norton; Charles Hodge in the intellectual weather of the 19th century; secularization and sacralization - some religious origins of the secular humanities curriculum, 1850-1900; the ""German model"" and the graduate school - the University of Michigan and the origin myth of the American university; how we forgot to do research; Catholicism and modern scholarship - a historical sketch; the evangelical intellectual revival; the Catholic university in modern academe - challenge and dilemma; Catholic intellectual traditions and contemporary scholarship.
