Professing in the Postmodern Academy

Stephen R. Haynes is Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis and Theologian-in-Residence at Idlewild Presbyterian Church. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation (Oxford, 2012).

Acknowledgements Preface Part One: Introduction A Review of Research on Church-Related Higher Education Stephen R. Haynes Part Two: Postmodern Opportunity The Habit of Empathy: Postmodernity and the Future of the Church-Related College Paul Lakeland Prolegomena to Any Postmodern Hope for the Church-Related College Margaret Falls-Corbitt A Sense of Place and the Place of Sense William J. Cahoy Part Three: Academic Vocation Conversation and Authority: A Tension in the Inheritance of the Church-Related College Richard Kyte Beyond the Faith-Knowledge Dichotomy: Teaching As Vocation Elizabeth Newman The Erotic Imagination and the Catholic Academy John Neary Part Four: Pedagogy and Praxis ""Academic"" vs. ""Confessional"" Study of the Bible in the Postmodern Classroom: A Response to Philip Davies and David Clines Julia M. O'Brien Teaching the Conflicts, For the Bible Tells Me So Timothy K. Beal A Pedagogy of Eucharistic Accompaniment Dominic P. Scibilia Part Five: Mission and Curriculum One-Armed Embrace of Postmodernity: International Education and Church-Related Colleges Keith Graber Miller Religion and the Curriculum at Church-Related Colleges Marcia Bunge From the Ties that Bind to Way-Stations: The Dynamics of Religious Commitment among Students and Their Families D. Jonathan Grieser and Corrie E. Norman Afterword A Typology of Church-Related Colleges and Universities Stephen R. Haynes Notes Bibliography Contributors

...introduces the reader to the wide range of literature on church-related education that has emerged over the past fifty years. Steve Haynes's 'Introduction' alone is worth the price of the book. -- Teaching Theology and Religion This is a volume that faculty at church-related colleges should read and discuss. -- Religious Studies Review Professing in the Postmodern Academy is an informative, thoughtful, question-raising study which is highly recommended reading--especially for all who attend or contribute to a religious college. -- Library Bookwatch Despite fears from some quarters, the end of the Enlightenment objectivity need not lead to relativism. Instead, as Professing in the Postmodern Academy so ably shows, it can result in an appreciation for the limitations of any single human perspective and a renewed appreciation for the Church. -- Perspectives in Religious Studies