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Reexamining Academic Freedom in Religiously Affiliated Universities

Transcending Orthodoxies

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Editors:
  1. Kenneth Garcia

    1. University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, USA

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  • Addresses the dearth of scholarship and books focusing explicitly on the relationship between academic freedom and religiously affiliated universities
  • Offers a unique and valuable interdisciplinary approach, mixing historical scholarship with philosophical reflection
  • Argues compellingly that interdisciplinary scholarship, especially that which brings theology to bear on other fields, should be encouraged and current discouragement of such scholarship represents a violation of academic freedom

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Overview and Historical Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Transcending Academic Orthodoxies

      • Kenneth Garcia
      Pages 3-23

    3. The Nineteenth-Century German University and German Idealism

      • Theodore Ziolkowski
      Pages 25-43

    4. The Open Circle: The Catholic University and Academic Freedom

      • James L. Heft S.M.
      Pages 45-60

  3. Academic Freedom and the Natural Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Academic Freedom, Religion and the Natural Sciences

      • Tom McLeish
      Pages 63-84

  4. Religion and Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. The Language of Spiritual Literature in a Post-Religious Era

      • Michael N. McGregor
      Pages 87-96

    3. Altars to the Unknown God: Poetry’s Religious Impulse

      • Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
      Pages 97-110

  5. Academic Freedom, Social Science, and Philosophy: What Went Wrong?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Academic Freedom, Religion and Social Science: Stories from the Front

      • Douglas V. Porpora
      Pages 113-132

    3. Freedom-From or Freedom-For? Academic Freedom, Responsibility, and the Revival of the Liberal Arts

      • Michele Averchi, Emanuele Colombo
      Pages 133-152

  6. Academic Freedom, Theology, and Religious Authority

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. The Transcending Orthodoxy: Revealed Truth Authenticating Academic Freedom in the Catholic University

      • Reinhard Hütter
      Pages 155-177

    3. The Freedom to “Bridge” Silos and the Role of Theology in a Catholic University

      • Bernard Brady
      Pages 179-198

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 199-223
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About this book

Kenneth Garcia presents an edited collection of papers from the 2015 conference on academic freedom at religiously affiliated universities, held at the University of Notre Dame. These essays reexamine the secular principle of academic freedom and discuss how a theological understanding might build on and further develop it. 

The year 2015 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the leading advocate of academic freedom in America. In October 2015, the University of Notre Dame convened a group of prominent scholars to consider how the concept and practice of academic freedom might evolve. The premise behind the conference was that the current conventional understandings of academic freedom are primarily secular and, therefore, not yet complete. The goal was to consider alternative understandings in light of theological insight. Theological insight, in this context, refers to an awareness that thereis a surplus of knowledge and meaning to reality that transcends what can be known through ordinary disciplinary methods of inquiry, especially those that are quantitative or empirical. Essays in this volume discuss how, in light of the fact that findings in many fields hint at connections to a greater whole, scholars in any academic field should be free to pursue those connections. Moreover, there are religious traditions that can help inform those connections. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, USA

    Kenneth Garcia

About the editor

Kenneth Garcia is Associate Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is the author of Academic Freedom and the Telos of the Catholic University (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), which won the award for “Best Book Published in Theology in 2012” from the College Theology Society. He has also published in scholarly journals such as The Journal of Academic Freedom, Theological Studies, and Horizons: the Journal of the College Theology Society. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reexamining Academic Freedom in Religiously Affiliated Universities

  • Book Subtitle: Transcending Orthodoxies

  • Editors: Kenneth Garcia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39787-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39786-3Published: 02 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81967-9Published: 07 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39787-0Published: 21 December 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 223

  • Topics: Religion and Society, Religion and Education, Christianity

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