Professing in the Postmodern Academy
Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges
Professing in the Postmodern Academy
Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges
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Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 9781932792447
Number of Pages: 377
Published: 30/04/2005
Width: 15.1 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
Professing in the Postmodern Academy examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members critically committed to the future of church-related institutions. The book includes articles on a variety of topics from members of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related College, a project that has involved ninety church-related institutions since 1996.
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part One: Introduction
- A Review of Research on Church-Related Higher Education
- Stephen R. Haynes
- Part Two: Postmodern Opportunity
- The Habit of Empathy: Postmodernity and the Future of the Church-Related College
- Paul Lakeland
- Prolegomena to Any Postmodern Hope for the Church-Related College
- Margaret Falls-Corbitt
- A Sense of Place and the Place of Sense
- William J. Cahoy
- Part Three: Academic Vocation
- Conversation and Authority: A Tension in the Inheritance of the Church-Related College
- Richard Kyte
- Beyond the Faith-Knowledge Dichotomy: Teaching As Vocation
- Elizabeth Newman
- The Erotic Imagination and the Catholic Academy
- John Neary
- Part Four: Pedagogy and Praxis
- ""Academic"" vs. ""Confessional"" Study of the Bible in the Postmodern Classroom: A Response to Philip Davies and David Clines
- Julia M. O'Brien
- Teaching the Conflicts, For the Bible Tells Me So
- Timothy K. Beal
- A Pedagogy of Eucharistic Accompaniment
- Dominic P. Scibilia
- Part Five: Mission and Curriculum
- One-Armed Embrace of Postmodernity: International Education and Church-Related Colleges
- Keith Graber Miller
- Religion and the Curriculum at Church-Related Colleges
- Marcia Bunge
- From the Ties that Bind to Way-Stations: The Dynamics of Religious Commitment among Students and Their Families
- D. Jonathan Grieser and Corrie E. Norman
- Afterword
- A Typology of Church-Related Colleges and Universities
- Stephen R. Haynes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
