Contending With Modernity : Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century.
How did Catholic colleges and universities deal with the modernization of education and the rise of research universities? In this book, Philip Gleason offers the first comprehensive study of Catholic higher education in the twentieth century, tracing the evolution of responses to anincreasingly sec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Summary: | How did Catholic colleges and universities deal with the modernization of education and the rise of research universities? In this book, Philip Gleason offers the first comprehensive study of Catholic higher education in the twentieth century, tracing the evolution of responses to anincreasingly secular educational system. At the beginning of the century, Catholics accepted modernization in the organizational sphere while resisting it ideologically. Convinced of the truth of their religious and intellectual position, the restructured Catholic colleges grew rapidly afterWorld War I, comm. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (449 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780195356939 0195356934 |