Fifty years of religious studies in Canada : a personal retrospective /
Coward, Harold G., 1936-
Fifty years of religious studies in Canada : a personal retrospective / Harold Coward. - 1 online resource - Editions SR . - Editions SR ; v. 36. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions as well as religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this change in this memoir of his forty-five-year career in the development of religious studies as a new academic field in Canada. He also addresses the shift from theology classes in seminaries to non-sectarian religious studies faculties of arts and humanities; the birth and growth of departments across Canada from the 1960s to the present; the contribution of McMaster University to religious studies in Canada and Coward's Ph. D. experience there; the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria; and the future of religious studies as a truly interdisciplinary enterprise. Coward's retrospective, while not a history as such, documents information from his varied experience and wide network of colleagues that is essential for a future formal history of the discipline. His story is both personally engaging and richly informative about the development of the field. -- Provided by publisher.
9781771121033 1771121033 1771121157 9781771121156 1771121165 9781771121163
1900-1999
Religion--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--Canada--20th century.
Theology--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--Canada--20th century.
Universities and colleges--Curricula--History--Canada--20th century.
Enseignement universitaire--Programmes d'études--Histoire--Canada--20e siècle.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Essays.
RELIGION--Reference.
Religion--Study and teaching (Higher)
Theology--Study and teaching (Higher)
Universities and colleges--Curricula
Canada
Electronic books.
History
BL42.5.C3 / C69 2014eb
200.071/171
Fifty years of religious studies in Canada : a personal retrospective / Harold Coward. - 1 online resource - Editions SR . - Editions SR ; v. 36. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions as well as religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this change in this memoir of his forty-five-year career in the development of religious studies as a new academic field in Canada. He also addresses the shift from theology classes in seminaries to non-sectarian religious studies faculties of arts and humanities; the birth and growth of departments across Canada from the 1960s to the present; the contribution of McMaster University to religious studies in Canada and Coward's Ph. D. experience there; the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria; and the future of religious studies as a truly interdisciplinary enterprise. Coward's retrospective, while not a history as such, documents information from his varied experience and wide network of colleagues that is essential for a future formal history of the discipline. His story is both personally engaging and richly informative about the development of the field. -- Provided by publisher.
9781771121033 1771121033 1771121157 9781771121156 1771121165 9781771121163
1900-1999
Religion--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--Canada--20th century.
Theology--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--Canada--20th century.
Universities and colleges--Curricula--History--Canada--20th century.
Enseignement universitaire--Programmes d'études--Histoire--Canada--20e siècle.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Essays.
RELIGION--Reference.
Religion--Study and teaching (Higher)
Theology--Study and teaching (Higher)
Universities and colleges--Curricula
Canada
Electronic books.
History
BL42.5.C3 / C69 2014eb
200.071/171