Reexamining Academic Freedom in Religiously Affiliated Universities - Transcending Orthodoxies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

Kenneth Garcia presents an edited collection of papers from the 2015 conference on academic freedom at religiously affiliated universities, held at the University of Notre Dame. These essays reexamine the secular principle of academic freedom and discuss how a theological understanding might build on and further develop it. The year 2015 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the leading advocate of academic freedom in America. In October 2015, the University of Notre Dame convened a group of prominent scholars to consider how the concept and practice of academic freedom might evolve. The premise behind the conference was that the current conventional understandings of academic freedom are primarily secular and, therefore, not yet complete. The goal was to consider alternative understandings in light of theological insight. Theological insight, in this context, refers to an awareness that there is a surplus of knowledge and meaning to reality that transcends what can be known through ordinary disciplinary methods of inquiry, especially those that are quantitative or empirical. Essays in this volume discuss how, in light of the fact that findings in many fields hint at connections to a greater whole, scholars in any academic field should be free to pursue those connections. Moreover, there are religious traditions that can help inform those connections.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2017
First published:	2016
Editors:	Kenneth Garcia
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	223
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-39786-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
LSN:	3-319-39786-9
Barcode:	9783319397863

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