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The American University Has Embraced A Thorough Secularism That Makes It Increasingly Marginal In A Society That Is Characterized By High Levels Of Religious Belief. The Very Secularization That Was Supposed To Be A Liberating Influence Has Resulted In The University's Failure To Provide Leadership In Political, Cultural, Social, And Even Scientific Arenas. In The Decline Of The Secular University, C. John Sommerville Explores Several Different Ways In Which The Secular University Fails In Its Mission Through Its Trivialization Of Religion. He Notes How Little Attention Is Being Given To Defining The Human, So Crucial In All Aspects Of Professional Education. He Alerts Us To Problems Associated With The Prevailing Secular Distinction Between Facts And Values. He Reviews How The Elimination Of Religion Hampers The University From Understanding Our Post-cold War World. Sommerville Then Shows How A Greater Awareness Of The Intellectual Resources Of Religion Might Stimulate More Forthright Attention To Important Matters Like Our Loss Of A Sense Of History, How To Problematize Secularism, The Issue Of Judging Religions, The Oddity Of Academic Moralizing, And The Strangeness Of Science A

Author

C. John Sommerville

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190294489

Subjects

Education, Religion