Professing in the Postmodern Academy: Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges. (Issues in Religion and Higher Education) [Hardcover]

Stephen R. Haynes (Editor)

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Publication Date: July 11, 2002 | Series: Issues in Religion and Higher Education (Book 1)

Professing in the Postmodern Academy examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members who are critically committed to the future of church-related institutions. The book includes chapters on a variety of topics from members of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College, a project that has involved ninety church-related institutions since 1996. The book features an introduction by Stephen R. Haynes, director of the Rhodes Consultation, that reviews twentieth-century scholarship on religiously affiliated higher education; chapters on the church-related college's "postmodern opportunity" by Paul Lakeland, Margaret Falls-Corbitt, and William Cahoy; considerations of the academic vocation by Richard Kyte, Elizabeth Newman, and John Neary; treatments of pedagogy and praxis by Julia O'Brien, Timothy Beal, and Dominic Scibilia; studies of mission and curriculum by Keith Graber Miller, Marcia Bunge, Jonathan Grieser, and Corrie Norman; and an afterword by Haynes. The book provides a unique and innovative contribution to the literature on religion and higher education by giving voice to outstanding junior faculty willing to imagine a creative and vibrant future for the American church-related college. FIRST IN A NEW SERIES Our new series, "Issues in Religion and Higher Education," will include both monographs and edited works studying the relationship of religious identity, tradition, and academic study to higher education.

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STEPHEN R. HAYNES holds the A. B. Curry Chair of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, where he has taught since 1989. Since 1996 he has directed the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College, a national network of teacher-scholars at religiously affiliated institutions of higher education.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Baylor University Press (July 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0918954827
• ISBN-13: 978-0918954824
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,800,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Stephen R. Haynes is Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis. He has a wife, three kids and a beagle. He likes running, cycling, and following college football. He knew his interest in Dietrich Bonhoeffer was rubbing off on his family when his four-year old son said recently: "Dad, how did Bonhoeffer die?"

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5.0 out of 5 stars An informative, thoughtful, question-raising study, October 14, 2003

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This review is from: Professing in the Postmodern Academy: Faculty and the Future of Church-Related Colleges. (Issues in Religion and Higher Education) (Hardcover)

Compiled and edited by Stephen R. Haynes (A. B. Curry Chair of Religious Studies at Rhodes College), Professing In The Postmodern Academy: Faculty And The Future Of Church-Related Colleges is a collection of learned essays studying religiously affiliated collegiate institutions in America, as perceived through the observations of faculty members committed to the future of such institutions of higher learning. Exploring educational opportunities in postmodern times, Biblical conflicts that affect day-to-day teaching, the intersection between mission and curriculum, and a great deal more, Professing In The Postmodern Academy is an informative, thoughtful, question-raising study which is highly recommended reading -- especially for all who attend or contribute to a religious college.