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Book SynopsisReligion, 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 distinct 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 persTrade Review“This collection of essays is a lively read not only for scholars, institutional administrators, and foundation officers, but for anyone interested in the evolving role of religion in American intellectual life over the last half century. This well-edited book is comprised of short, thought-provoking pieces from some of the country’s leading lights in the humanities and social sciences. In first-person reflections, this collection offers a vivid and informative account of religion and scholarship over the last few decades and poses constructive questions for its future.” —Publishers Weekly“The connection between religion and higher education upsets some people and satisfies others, but this volume’s 18 essays plus epilog could please both parties. The essays offer an insightful and good-humored perspective on the links between religion and higher education. A strength of the collection is the distinguished and diverse retinue of participants, a rich mixture of Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and agnostics.” —Library Journal“[T]thoughtful essays from a seminar on religion and higher education. [T]he essays will no doubt be useful to people in the religion and higher education business.” —First Things, March 2002“The essays in Religion, Scholarship, & Higher Education cover a wide variety of topics, from whether religious beliefs affect students’ relationships with their teachers to how faith can influence the interpretation of poetry, and they each make a worthwhile contribution.” —The American Enterprise“This is clearly a definitive volume and should be taken seriously by anybody who wishes to investigate the topic of religion, scholarship and higher education.” —Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology“The book’s greatest merit is its accessibility, its coverage of a wide range of issues, its practical testimonies, its interdisciplinary and ecumenical range. For all of this, it can be greatly commended.” —Theology“Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education is an outstanding collection of essays that serves to clarify, strengthen, and enrich the relationship between religion and the academy in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The collected wisdom in this volume will stimulate serious reflection on the vocation of teaching and research.” —Teaching Theology and Religion“[A] wonderful introduction to an issue of great import. . . . [A] most interesting volume.” —Catholic Southwest“[A] useful book.” —International Journal of Education and Religion“This is a valuable and well-edited book whose implications stretch wider than North America. The text helps to create a vision of what higher education might be.” —Journal of Beliefs & Values“[I]nsightful and useful. . . . This book will be useful to the scholar of higher education because it provides a variety of explanations—especially in terms of disciplines and fields of study in the social sciences and humanities—of the relationship of theology and religion to higher education. I recommend this work to anyone interested in religion and higher education.” —Journal of Higher Education“[T]he revealing autobiographical style adopted by many of the contributions . . . provides some interesting insights into the religious motivation of at least some examples of scholarship and teaching.” —Theory and Research in Education

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Book SynopsisExplores foundational issues surrounding the interaction of religion and the academy in the 21st century. Featuring the work of scholars from diverse institutional, disciplinary and religious backgrounds, it issues from a three-year Lilly Seminar on religion and higher education.Trade Review“This collection of essays is a lively read not only for scholars, institutional administrators, and foundation officers, but for anyone interested in the evolving role of religion in American intellectual life over the last half century. This well-edited book is comprised of short, thought-provoking pieces from some of the country’s leading lights in the humanities and social sciences. In first-person reflections, this collection offers a vivid and informative account of religion and scholarship over the last few decades and poses constructive questions for its future.” —Publishers Weekly“The connection between religion and higher education upsets some people and satisfies others, but this volume’s 18 essays plus epilog could please both parties. The essays offer an insightful and good-humored perspective on the links between religion and higher education. A strength of the collection is the distinguished and diverse retinue of participants, a rich mixture of Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and agnostics.” —Library Journal“[T]thoughtful essays from a seminar on religion and higher education. [T]he essays will no doubt be useful to people in the religion and higher education business.” —First Things, March 2002“The essays in Religion, Scholarship, & Higher Education cover a wide variety of topics, from whether religious beliefs affect students’ relationships with their teachers to how faith can influence the interpretation of poetry, and they each make a worthwhile contribution.” —The American Enterprise“This is clearly a definitive volume and should be taken seriously by anybody who wishes to investigate the topic of religion, scholarship and higher education.” —Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology“The book’s greatest merit is its accessibility, its coverage of a wide range of issues, its practical testimonies, its interdisciplinary and ecumenical range. For all of this, it can be greatly commended.” —Theology“Religion, Scholarship, and Higher Education is an outstanding collection of essays that serves to clarify, strengthen, and enrich the relationship between religion and the academy in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The collected wisdom in this volume will stimulate serious reflection on the vocation of teaching and research.” —Teaching Theology and Religion“[A] wonderful introduction to an issue of great import. . . . [A] most interesting volume.” —Catholic Southwest“[A] useful book.” —International Journal of Education and Religion“This is a valuable and well-edited book whose implications stretch wider than North America. The text helps to create a vision of what higher education might be.” —Journal of Beliefs & Values“[I]nsightful and useful. . . . This book will be useful to the scholar of higher education because it provides a variety of explanations—especially in terms of disciplines and fields of study in the social sciences and humanities—of the relationship of theology and religion to higher education. I recommend this work to anyone interested in religion and higher education.” —Journal of Higher Education“[T]he revealing autobiographical style adopted by many of the contributions . . . provides some interesting insights into the religious motivation of at least some examples of scholarship and teaching.” —Theory and Research in Education

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Book SynopsisCompassion, humility, faith, perseverance. We long for the beauty of Christ to be reflected in our lives. Such character comes only as the Spirit of God transforms us through the Word of God. These Bible studies will help you become the person God wants you to be. The top-selling LifeBuilder Bible Studies have helped millions of people dig deeper into the Bible, individually and in groups. This revised edition features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader's notes and an extra 'Now or Later' section in each study.

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Book SynopsisMore. Better. Quicker. Richer. Are the values of our consumer society invading the church? Are we looking for overnight success in following Jesus? For instant godliness? Discipline is not a popular word today, but the disciplined Christian life produces a depth that is life-enhancing, bringing joy and freedom. Christian Disciplines looks not only at the foundational disciplines of the Christian life – the ‘quiet time’, prayer, worship and Bible study – but other crucial disciplines such as evangelism, giving, social justice, managing time and gifts, mission.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in the history of religion.Trade Review"Faithful Narratives features an all-star lineup of historians, the best of the best, and all deliver. They contend that religion cannot be explained away, ignored as a factor in human agency, reduced to a by-product of other factors, or treated as a category separate from society." -- David Kling, University of Miami, author of The Bible in History"Traversing the boundaries of the religious and the secular, the premodern and modern, and the disciplines of history and religious studies, this collection of illuminating and compelling essays offers new insights into the significance of religion in the study of history. It is an important and interdisciplinary intervention in modern historiography, for the contributors remind us that religion belongs alongside politics, economics, and culture as an integral dimension of individual and communal identity." -- Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University, author of The Gendered PalimpsestTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Challenge of Religion in History ANDREA STERK AND NINA CAPUTO Part One: Late Antique and Medieval Religious Debates and Their Modern Implications 1. Pagan Challenge, Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as Paradigms of Interreligious Discourse SUSANNA ELM 2. Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work, and the "Holy Poor" PETER BROWN 3. Medieval Monks on Labor and Leisure JOHN VAN ENGEN 4. Sibling Rivalries, Scriptural Communities: What Medieval History Can and Cannot Teach Us about Relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam DAVID NIRENBERG Part Two: Early Modern Perspectives on Spirituality, Culture, and Religious Boundaries 5. The People and the Book: Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe DAVID B. RUDERMAN 6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters ANTHONY GRAFTON 7. Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña's Desert in Passing KENNETH MILLS 8. Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World CARLOS EIRE Part Three: From the Premodern to the Modern World: Sacred Texts, Individual Agency, and Religious Identity 9. Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of Agency PHYLLIS MACK 10. Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam SUSANNAH HESCHEL 11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa LAMIN SANNEH 12. Reflections on the Bible and American Public Life MARK A. NOLL Notes

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