Editors:
- Addresses the dearth of scholarship and books focusing explicitly on the relationship between academic freedom and religiously affiliated universities
- Offers a unique and valuable interdisciplinary approach, mixing historical scholarship with philosophical reflection
- Argues compellingly that interdisciplinary scholarship, especially that which brings theology to bear on other fields, should be encouraged and current discouragement of such scholarship represents a violation of academic freedom
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview and Historical Background
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Academic Freedom and the Natural Sciences
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Religion and Literature
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Academic Freedom, Social Science, and Philosophy: What Went Wrong?
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Academic Freedom, Theology, and Religious Authority
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Back Matter
About this book
The year 2015 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the leading advocate of academic freedom in America. In October 2015, the University of Notre Dame convened a group of prominent scholars to consider how the concept and practice of academic freedom might evolve. The premise behind the conference was that the current conventional understandings of academic freedom are primarily secular and, therefore, not yet complete. The goal was to consider alternative understandings in light of theological insight. Theological insight, in this context, refers to an awareness that thereis a surplus of knowledge and meaning to reality that transcends what can be known through ordinary disciplinary methods of inquiry, especially those that are quantitative or empirical. Essays in this volume discuss how, in light of the fact that findings in many fields hint at connections to a greater whole, scholars in any academic field should be free to pursue those connections. Moreover, there are religious traditions that can help inform those connections.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, USA
Kenneth Garcia
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reexamining Academic Freedom in Religiously Affiliated Universities
Book Subtitle: Transcending Orthodoxies
Editors: Kenneth Garcia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39787-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39786-3Published: 02 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81967-9Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39787-0Published: 21 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 223
Topics: Religion and Society, Religion and Education, Christianity