Religious advocacy and American history / edited by Bruce Kuklick and D.G. Hart.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c1997.Description: xx, 233 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0802842607 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973 K958r
LOC classification:
  • E175 .R45 1997
Contents:
Christian advocacy and the rules of the academic game / George M. Marsden -- Traditional Christianity and the possibility of historical knowledge / Mark A. Noll -- On critical history / Bruce Kuklick -- Advocacy and academe / Murray G. Murphey -- Marxism, Christianity, and bias in the study of southern slave society / Eugene D. Genovese -- Advocacy and the writing of American women's history / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- In search of the fourth "R": the treatment of religion in American history textbooks and survey courses / Paul Boyer --
What's so special about the university, anyway? / D. G. Hart -- Understanding the past, using the past: reflections on two approaches to history / Grant Wacker -- Transcendentalist's Aristotle: nonevangelical reflections on conviction and the writing of history / Catherine L. Albanese -- Seldon's choice: variations on a theme by Asimov / Paul A. Carter -- One histoian's Sundays / Leslie Woodcock Tentler.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 973 K958r (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS001287935

Based on a conference held at Wheaton College in the spring of 1994.

Includes bibliographical references.

Christian advocacy and the rules of the academic game / George M. Marsden -- Traditional Christianity and the possibility of historical knowledge / Mark A. Noll -- On critical history / Bruce Kuklick -- Advocacy and academe / Murray G. Murphey -- Marxism, Christianity, and bias in the study of southern slave society / Eugene D. Genovese -- Advocacy and the writing of American women's history / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- In search of the fourth "R": the treatment of religion in American history textbooks and survey courses / Paul Boyer --

What's so special about the university, anyway? / D. G. Hart -- Understanding the past, using the past: reflections on two approaches to history / Grant Wacker -- Transcendentalist's Aristotle: nonevangelical reflections on conviction and the writing of history / Catherine L. Albanese -- Seldon's choice: variations on a theme by Asimov / Paul A. Carter -- One histoian's Sundays / Leslie Woodcock Tentler.

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