A long eclipse [[electronic resource] ] : the liberal Protestant establishment and the Canadian university, 1920-1970 / / Catherine Gidney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783763803321
• Autore: Gidney Catherine (Catherine Anne), <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-86300-2; 9786612863004; 0-7735-7232-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvi, 240 pages)
• Collana: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; ; 32
• Disciplina: 378.71
• Soggetti: Church and education - Canada - History - 20th century; Protestant churches - Canada - Influence - History - 20th century; Universities and colleges - Canada - History - 20th century; Église et éducation - Canada - Histoire - 20e siècle; Églises protestantes - Canada - Influence - Histoire - 20e siècle; Universités - Canada - Histoire - 20e siècle
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-234) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- “To live the good life”: The Moral Vision of the University from the 1920s to the 1960s -- “Training for freedom”: Moral Regulation in the University from the 1920s to the 1960s -- The Student Christian Movement: The Public Voice of Religion and Reform on the University Campus from the 1920s to the 1960s -- University Christian Missions during and after the Second World War -- Expansion and Transformation: The Context for Changing Values -- Religious Pluralism, the New Left, and the Decline of the Student Christian Movement -- The Decline of In Loco Parentis -- Responding to Religious and Cultural Fragmentation -- Conclusion -- University Presidents and Principals -- University Christian Missions, 1941–1966 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Taking a social and cultural history approach, Gidney argues that for much of the twentieth century a liberal Protestant establishment imparted its own particular vision of moral and intellectual purpose to ; denominational and non-denominational campuses alike. Examining administrators' pronouncements, the moral regulation of campus life, and student religious clubs, she demonstrates that Protestant ideals and values were successfully challenged only in the post-World War II period when a number of factors, including a loosening of social mores, a more religiously diverse student body, and the ascent of the multiversity finally eroded Protestant hegemony. Only in the late 1960s, however, can one begin to speak of a university whose public voice was predominantly secular and where the voice of liberal Protestantism had been reduced to one among many.