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Being There - Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools (Hardcover, New)
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Being There - Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools (Hardcover, New)
Series: Religion in America
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This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the
U.S. today. The authors' goal is to understand the way in which
institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational
process. To that end, they undertake ethnographic studies of two
seminaries-one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These
studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first
part of the book and offer fascinating portraits of two very
different intellectual, religious, and social worlds.
The authors go on to analyze these disparate environments, and
suggest how in each case corporate culture acts as an agent of
educational change. They find two major consequences stemming from
the culture of each school. First, each culture gives expression to
a normative goal that aims at shaping the way students understand
themselves and from issues of ministry practice. Second, each
provides a "cultural tool kit" of knowledge, practices, and skills
that students use to construct strategies of action for the various
problems and issues that will confront them as pastors or in other
forms of ministry. In the concluding chapters, the authors explore
the implications of their findings for theories of institutional
culture and professional socialization and for interpreting the
state of religion in America. They identify some of the practical
dilemmas that theological and other professional schools currently
face, and reflect on how their findings might contribute to their
solution. This accessible, thought-provoking study will not only
illuminate the structure and process by which culture educates and
forms, but also provide invaluable insights into important dynamics
of American religious life.
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