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Words and things : the hope of perspectival realism / Susan M. Felch -- Can we be good without God? / John Hare -- Can scientific laws teach us about the nature of the world? / David A. Van Baak -- Design in nature : what is science properly permitted to think? / Del Ratzsch -- Reckoning with the conquest of California and the West : Josiah Royce and the American memory / Ronald A. Wells -- Better media with wisdom from a distant place / Mark Fackler -- Gender partnership : a care theory perspective / Helen M. Sterk -- American poverty policy : concerns about the nature of persons in a good society / Kurt C. Schaefer -- Understanding God, nature, and social structure : a case study of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand / Janel M. Curry.

In the past thirty years there has been a sea change in North American intellectual life regarding the role of religious commitments in academic endeavors. Driven partly by post-modernism and the fragmentation of knowledge and partly by the democratization of the academy in which different voices are celebrated, the appropriate role that religion should play is contested. Some academics insist that religion cannot and must not have a place at the academic table; others insist that religious values shoulddrive the argument. Faithful Imagination in the Academy takes an approach based on dialogu.