Religious ideas for secular universities - Sommerville, C. John (Charles John), 1938- (Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009)
I. The Crisis of the Secular University : -- 1. Secularist education becomes problematic -- 2. Secularization creates the corporate university -- 3. Defining religious and secular arguments -- 4. Why Christianity and secularization need each other -- 5. Scholars recover the human difference -- II. Judging Religions, and Especially Christianity : -- 6. How we judge religions -- 7. How does Christianity come out? -- 8. Theocracy versus Christianity -- III. Scholars Assess the Western Bible : -- 9. How the Bible works : narrative theory -- 10. How the Bible was chosen and what makes it one book -- IV. The University and the Culture Wars : -- 11. A brief history of our culture wars -- 12. The child as secular icon -- 13. News as culture substitute -- 14. Spirituality and decadence
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Religion; Church and education -- United States; Secularism -- United States