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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Religious advocacy and American history. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c1997 (OCoLC)607745563 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bruce Kuklick; D G Hart |
| ISBN: | 0802842607 9780802842602 |
| OCLC Number: | 35808312 |
| Notes: | Based on a conference held at Wheaton College in the spring of 1994. |
| Description: | xx, 233 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Christian advocacy and the rules of the academic game / George M. Marsden -- Traditional Christianity and the possibility of historical knowledge / Mark A. Noll -- On critical history / Bruce Kuklick -- Advocacy and academe / Murray G. Murphey -- Marxism, Christianity, and bias in the study of southern slave society / Eugene D. Genovese -- Advocacy and the writing of American women's history / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- In search of the fourth "R": the treatment of religion in American history textbooks and survey courses / Paul Boyer. What's so special about the university, anyway? / D.G. Hart -- Understanding the past, using the past: reflections on two approaches to history / Grant Wacker -- Transcendentalist's Aristotle: nonevangelical reflections on conviction and the writing of history / Catherine L. Albanese -- Seldon's choice: variations on a theme by Asimov / Paul A. Carter -- One historian's Sundays / Leslie Woodcock Tentler. |
| Other Titles: | Religious advocacy and American history / |
| Responsibility: | edited by Bruce Kuklick and D.G. Hart. |
| Local System Bib Number: | 102916 |
Abstract:
Religious Advocacy and American History explores the general question of bias and objectivity in higher learning from the perspective of the role of religious convictions in the study of American history. The contributors to this book, many of whom are leading historians of American religion and culture, address primarily two related questions. First, how do personal religious convictions influence one's own research, writing, and teaching? And, second, what place should personal beliefs have within American higher education?
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