03623nam 2200661 a 450 991081600200332120240515215959.01-283-03516-297866130351650-8203-3966-0heb40073(CKB)2670000000081203(OCoLC)711004413(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457040(SSID)ssj0000472672(PQKBManifestationID)11338087(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472672(PQKBWorkID)10433579(PQKB)10577174(MiAaPQ)EBC3038952(OCoLC)794700461(MdBmJHUP)muse14557(Au-PeEL)EBL3038952(CaPaEBR)ebr10457040(CaONFJC)MIL303516(dli)heb40073.0001.001(MiU)MIU400730001001(EXLCZ)99267000000008120320100625d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrReligion enters the academy the origins of the scholarly study of religion in America /James Turner1st ed.Athens [Ga.] University of Georgia Pressc20111 online resource (132 p.) George H. Shriver lecture series in religion in American history ;no. 4Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8203-3740-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.The dog that didn't bark : the study of religions in America to circa 1820 -- Comparing religions in an age of uncertainty, circa 1820 to 1875 -- William James redraws the map."Religious studies -- also known as comparative religion or history of religions -- emerged as a field of study in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic during the late nineteenth century. In Europe, as previous historians have demonstrated, the discipline grew from long-established traditions of university-based philological scholarship. But in the United States, James Turner argues, religious studies developed outside the academy. Until about 1820, Turner contends, even learned Americans showed little interest in non-European religions -- a subject that had fascinated their counterparts in Europe since the end of the seventeenth century. Growing concerns about the status of Christianity generated American interest in comparing it to other great religions, and the resulting writings eventually produced the academic discipline of religious studies in U.S. universities. Fostered especially by learned Protestant ministers, this new discipline focused on canonical texts -- the 'bibles' -- of other great world religions. This rather narrow approach provoked the philosopher and psychologist William James to challenge academic religious studies in 1902 with his celebrated and groundbreaking Varieties of Religious Experience."--Publisher's description.George H. Shriver lecture series in religion in American history ;no. 4.ReligionStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryReligionsStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryReligionStudy and teachingHistoryReligionsStudy and teachingHistory200.07/073Turner James1946-1205547MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816002003321Religion enters the academy3979089UNINA