Title
No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education
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Description
Drawing on conversations with hundreds of professors, co-curricular educators, administrators, and students from institutions spanning the entire spectrum of American colleges and universities, the Jacobsens illustrate how religion is constructively intertwined with the work of higher education in the twenty-first century. No Longer Invisible documents how, after decades when religion was marginalized, colleges and universities are re-engaging matters of faith-an educational development that is both positive and necessary.
Religion in contemporary American life is now incredibly complex, with religious pluralism on the rise and the categories of "religious" and "secular" often blending together in a dizzying array of lifestyles and beliefs. Using the categories of historic religion, public religion, and personal religion, No Longer Invisible offers a new framework for understanding this emerging religious terrain, a framework that can help colleges and universities-and the students who attend them-interact with religion more effectively. The stakes are high: Faced with escalating pressures to focus solely on job training, American higher education may find that paying more careful and nuanced attention to religion is a prerequisite for preserving American higher education's longstanding commitment to personal, social, and civic learning.
ISBN
9780199844739
Publication Date
9-27-2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford, England
Keywords
religion, higher education, college, university, messiah college, messiah university
Disciplines
Higher Education | Religion | Religious Education
Recommended Citation
Jacobsen, Douglas and Jacobsen, Rhonda Hustedt, "No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education" (2012). Educator Book Gallery. 25.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/edbooks/25
