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Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University » (New Edition)

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Authors: Kathleen A. Mahoney, Kathleena Mahoney
ISBN-13: 9780801873409, ISBN-10: 0801873401
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Kathleen A. Mahoney

Kathleen A. Mahoney, formerly an assistant professor of education at Boston College, is president of the Humanitas Foundation in New York City.

Book Synopsis

"A fascinating documentary on the struggles between 'descendants of Luther and the sons of Loyola'... Explains how the creation of modern secular universities forced Catholic colleges to adapt or languish." -- Connection

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction1
IBetween Protestants and Catholics19
1The Descendants of Luther and the Sons of Loyola21
2Time: The Harvard Law School Controversy and the Modern Imperative60
IIAmong Catholics99
3Persons: The Bonds of Religion and the Claims of Class101
4Place: Americanism and the Higher Education of Catholics151
IIIAmong Jesuits193
5Novus Ordo Academicus and the Travails of Adapting195
Conclusion239
App. AHarvard Law School's Select List of Colleges, 1893251
App. BColleges and Programs Added and Removed from Harvard Law School's Select List of Institutions, 1894-1903254
App. CPresident Eliot and Jesuit Colleges257
App. DSelect List of Jesuit Superiors, Provincials, and Presidents271
Notes275
Bibliography311
Index337

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