A false prophet? -- The secularization of scholarship in American higher education -- The secularization of American higher education -- Is the secularization of higher education inevitable? -- Deconstructing the secularization narrative -- Faith-informed traditions of practical rationality: contemporary approaches of three religious traditions to knowledge -- The Roman Catholic tradition -- The Reformed Worldview -- The Anabaptist Narrative -- Traditions, worldviews, narratives, and practices: how faith shapes reason -- Faith-informed scholarship across the disciplines -- The influence of background beliefs on scholarship -- Specific examples -- Faith-informed scholarship and the practices of networks and institutions -- Old and new networks of religious colleges and universities -- Religious faith and scholarship: institutional practices -- Religion and scholarship: networks of scholars and professional associations -- Faith-informed scholarship and the practice of academic freedom -- Defining academic freedom -- A brief comparative history of faith-informed scholarship and academic freedom -- Comparing individual perspectives of faith-informed scholarship and academic freedom -- Institutional examples of faith-informed scholarship and academic freedom -- Faith-informed scholarship and the larger tournament of narratives -- Expounders of decline or decay in the academy -- Narratives of hope? : the postmodern, postliberal, postsecular university -- The hope of faith-informed narratives, scholarships and universities.
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