TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coward,Harold G.
TI  - Fifty years of religious studies in Canada: a personal retrospective 
T2  - Editions SR
SN  - 9781771121033
AV  - BL42.5.C3 C69 2014eb
U1  - 200.071/171 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
PB  - Wilfrid Laurier University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - Canada
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Theology
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Curricula
KW  - Enseignement universitaire
KW  - Programmes d'études
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Essays
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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