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Princeton in the Nation's Service P. C. Kemeny (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Calvin College)

Princeton in the Nation's Service By P. C. Kemeny (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Calvin College)

Summary

This text argues against the conventional idea that Protestantism ceased to play a role in American higher education around the end of the 19th century. It shows that Protestantism was modified to conform to the educational values and intellectual standards of the modern university.

Princeton in the Nation's Service Summary

Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928 by P. C. Kemeny (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Calvin College)

This book argues against the conventional idea that Protestantism effectively ceased to play an important role in American higher education around the end of the 19th century. Choosing Princeton as an example, Kemeny shows that Protestantism was not abandoned but rather modified to conform to the educational values and intellectual standards of the modern university. Drawing upon a wealth of neglected primary sources, Kemeny sheds new light upon the role of religion in higher education by examining what was happening both inside and outside the classroom and showing that religious and secular commitments were not neatly divisible but rather commingled.

Princeton in the Nation's Service Reviews

Over the past fifteen years, careful studies of individual institutions and key players in this transition have aggregated to produce a more exact picture of this process. P. C. Kemeny's book now joins the ranks of the best of these studies. This book will be required reading for the rising generation of scholars seeking to understand the secularizing process in American higher education. * American Historical Review, December 2000 *

About P. C. Kemeny (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Calvin College)

P.C. Kemeny is Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.

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NPB9780195120714
9780195120714
019512071X
Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928 by P. C. Kemeny (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Calvin College)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
1998-10-29
364
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