Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

by William P. Leahy

Overview

Professor Leahy recounts the academic tensions between religious beliefs and intellectual inquiry, and explore the social changes that have affected higher education and American Catholicism throughout this century. He attempts to explain why the significant growth of Catholic colleges and universities was not always matched by concomitant academic esteem in the larger world of American higher education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878405046
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Contains the proceedings of the Ada-Europe International Conference, held in Madrid, June 1989. Papers address design methods within Ada, and how they may need to be augmented with additional methods and tools. No index. Explores how the Catholic community, and especially Catholic institutions of higher education, have dealt with the overwhelmingly protestant, and rapidly growing secular ideology underlying US society. The topics include academic standards and objectivity, co- education, and comparisons with protestant and Jewish institutions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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