Harold Coward

Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada

A Personal Retrospective

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Produktbeschreibung

Almost every university in North America now has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions and religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this and other shifts in this memoir of his forty-five-year career in the development of religious studies as a new academic field in Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781771121156
• ISBN-10: 1771121157
• Artikelnr.: 41200790

Autorenporträt

Harold Coward is a professor of history and director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada: A Personal Retrospective by
Harold Coward
Preface
1. Early Days: From Theology in Seminaries to Non-Sectarian Religious
Studies
2. The Golden Decade 1966-1976
3. McMaster Days: My Personal Experiences of McMaster in the Early 1970s
4. McMaster's Contribution to Religious Studies in Canada
5. Growing into Maturity: Development of Religious Studies Departments from
the Late 1970s to the Present
6. The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of
Victoria
7. Taking Seriously Our Interdisciplinary Heritage: The Future of Religious
Studies
8. Conclusion
References
Index