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Contending with modernity : Catholic higher education in the twentieth century / Philip Gleason.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gleason, Philip, 1927-
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic universities and colleges--United States.
- Catholic universities and colleges.
- Catholic Church--Education.
- Catholic Church.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 434 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How did Catholic colleges and universities deal with the modernization of education and the rise of research universities? In this text, Philip Gleason offers the first comprehensive study of Catholic higher education in the twentieth century, tracing the evolution of responses to an increasingly secular educational system.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Catholic Higher Education in 1900; Part One: Confronting Modernity as the Century Opens; Part Two: Challenging Modernity Between the Wars; Part Three: World War II and Postwar Crosscurrents; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-417) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756088-1
- 1-280-52813-3
- 0-19-535693-4
- 1-4294-0613-5
- OCLC:
- 191935369
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