In "The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American
Higher Education, " historian D. G. Hart examines the rise of
religion to its current place as one of the largest academic
disciplines in contemporary higher education. Protestant ministers
and faculty, arguing for the importance of religion to a truly
"liberal" education, were especially influential in staffing
departments and designing curricula to reflect their own
assumptions about the value of religion not just for higher
education but for American culture in general.
But the success of mainstream Protestantism in fostering the
academic study of religion has become the field's greatest burden.
Religion scholars have distanced themselves from traditional
Protestant orientations while looking for topics better suited to
America's cultural diversity. As a result, religion is in the
awkward position of being one of the largest scholarly disciplines
while simultaneously lacking a solid academic justification. It may
be time, Hart argues, for academics to stop trying to secure a
religion-friendly university.
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