The thesis of John Schmalzbauer and Kathleen A. Mahoney's new book is that, rather than lamenting a narrative of declension, we should be celebrating the resilience of religion in American higher education. However bad things were for religion on campus some time ago, they're getting better. There's more academic attention to the study and teaching of religion, more institutional attention to religious identity and denominational relations, and more at least "spiritual" activity in student life.
So the authors argue in an exhaustively documented book (almost a third of which, roughly 95 pages, offers 794 footnotes) that carries dust jacket blurbs from some of the biggest names in the religion-and-higher-ed field.
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