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The Decline of the Secular University (Hardcover)
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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 at the
frontiers.
Finally, he invites the reader to imagine a university where
religion is not ruled out but rather welcomed as a legitimate voice
among others. Sommerville's bracing and provocative arguments are
sure to provoke controversy and stimulate discussion both inside
and outside the academy.
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