Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970Taking a social and cultural history approach, Gidney argues that for much of the twentieth century a liberal Protestant establishment imparted its own particular vision of moral and intellectual purpose to denominational and non-denominational campuses alike. Examining administrators' pronouncements, the moral regulation of campus life, and student religious clubs, she demonstrates that Protestant ideals and values were successfully challenged only in the post-World War II period when a number of factors, including a loosening of social mores, a more religiously diverse student body, and the ascent of the multiversity finally eroded Protestant hegemony. Only in the late 1960s, however, can one begin to speak of a university whose public voice was predominantly secular and where the voice of liberal Protestantism had been reduced to one among many. |
Contents
The Moral Vision of the University from | 3 |
Moral Regulation in the University from | 26 |
The Public Voice of Religion | 48 |
University Christian Missions during and after the Second | 66 |
The Context for Changing | 84 |
Religious Pluralism the New Left and the Decline of | 97 |
The Decline of In Loco Parentis | 112 |
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