BOOK REVIEWS The Future of Religious Colleges

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“…Only a few of the above historians offer answers to this question (see Dovre, 2002;Sterk, 2002). Some sociologists have, however, propounded a theory that elevated secularization from merely a word describing something that occurred in history to a social scientific theory that provides predictive power about the future of religion in society and religious higher education.…”

“…First, as already discussed in the previous chapter, proponents argue that we must acknowledge that a person's worldview, communal identity narratives, or identified intellectual tradition will influence his or her scholarship in a variety of ways (Edwards, 2006;Clouser, 2005;Jacobsen and Jacobsen, 2004;Myers and Jeeves, 2003;Dovre, 2002;Sterk, 2002;Marsden, 1997;Sloan, 1994). For instance, Mark Edwards (2006) argues that we must recognize that disciplinary formation in the academy shapes who we are and how we look at the world.…”

“…Although the relationship between religion and scholarship has seen increased attention in the academy as a whole, the majority of public and even private research universities have made no effort to date to institutionalize such efforts. A number of recent studies, however, have attempted to outline and examine the practices of specific colleges and universities from a variety of religious traditions that are attempting to keep the faith (see, for example, the discussion of specific institutions in Poe, 2004;Dovre, 2002;Benne, 2001;and Hughes and Adrian, 1997).…”