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This is a story of religious and democratic covenants and controversies in the foundations of America and in the soul of its colleges and universities. Coinciding entangled democratic beliefs and convictions distinctly define the American body politic and are in the foundation of the nation and its colleges and universities.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Religion in the American College: The Landscape and Saga
Chapter Two: The Religion of the Republic and the American Enlightenment: Foundations of the Nation and the Academy
Chapter Three: John Witherspoon and Princeton: Political Theology and Theological Politics
Chapter Four: Four Score and Seven: The March from the Founding of the Republic to Civil War and Beyond
Chapter Five: The Watershed of the Civil War and What it Wrought: Gazing Backward and Forward
Chapter Six: Religious Underpinnings of Liberal and Social Democracy: The Bridge to the Twentieth Century
Chapter Seven: The Curses and Blessings of Religious and Democratic Pluralism: Twentieth Century Quandaries and Controversies
Chapter Eight: The Puzzle of Pluralism and An "Almost Chosen People": Religion and Democracy in the Academy and Nation in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Chapter Nine: The Contemporary Religion of the Republic: Religious and Ideological Conscience and the Quest for E Pluribus Unum
Epilogue: The Soul of the College and University: Is the Past Prologue?
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About the Author
About the author
By Stephen J. Nelson
Summary
This is a story of religious and democratic covenants and controversies in the foundations of America and in the soul of its colleges and universities. Coinciding entangled democratic beliefs and convictions distinctly define the American body politic and are in the foundation of the nation and its colleges and universities.
