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The Relationship of Religion to the College and University in America

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Hart 114

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10-5-2017 12:50 PM

End Time

10-5-2017 1:20 PM

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This paper is based on chapters of a recent book, The Shape and Shaping of the College and University in America: A Lively Experiment. The ideas presented in this paper represent an argument that has two facets.

The first is that the religious foundations of the academy in America are fundamental to its history. This is by no means a unique or previously untraveled notion. However, it deserves more detailed exploration than often accorded. The second notion is at the same time more critical and more of interest to the ideas presented in this paper: that those foundations of the academy have been critically inspired by and overlap with the religion of the Republic, the civil religion of the American nation in a fashion that forms a unique symbiotic and sympathetic bond between the foundation of the Republic and this civil religious thread in the college and university in America.

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The Relationship of Religion to the College and University in America

Hart 114

This paper is based on chapters of a recent book, The Shape and Shaping of the College and University in America: A Lively Experiment. The ideas presented in this paper represent an argument that has two facets.

The first is that the religious foundations of the academy in America are fundamental to its history. This is by no means a unique or previously untraveled notion. However, it deserves more detailed exploration than often accorded. The second notion is at the same time more critical and more of interest to the ideas presented in this paper: that those foundations of the academy have been critically inspired by and overlap with the religion of the Republic, the civil religion of the American nation in a fashion that forms a unique symbiotic and sympathetic bond between the foundation of the Republic and this civil religious thread in the college and university in America.