The American university has embraced a thorough secularism that makes it increasingly marginal in a society that is characterized by high levels of religious be

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The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylo

Examines churches and chapels built on campuses during the twentieth century to reveal declining role of religion within the mission of the modern American univ

Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opp