Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools (Religion in America) - Hardcover

Carroll, Jackson W.; Wheeler, Barbara G.; Aleshire, Daniel O.; Marler, Penny Long

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195114930 ISBN 13: 9780195114935

Verlag: OUP USA, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Carroll Jackson W Wheeler Barbara G Aleshire Danie

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The book ... presents a compelling analysis of each school's culture and its relationship to student formation ... This book will interest sociologists of culture, religion, organizations and education. (Mary Blair-Loy, Washington State University, American Journal of Sociology, March 1999)

"[This] superb study...will serve as a model for other studies of theological education in America and, conceivably, for other types of higher education as well....We have here what could easily become a paradigmatic scholarly approach to the synchronic interpretation of institutions of higher education."―Conrad Cherry, Indiana University

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This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the USA today. The authors' goal is to understand the way in which institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational process. To that end, they undertake ethnographic studies of two seminaries ― one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first part of the book and offer fascinating portraits of two very different intellectual, religious, and social worlds.

The authors go on to analyse these disparate environments, and suggest how in each case corporate culture acts as an agent of educational change. They find two major consequences stemming from the culture of each school. First, each culture gives expression to a normative goal that aims at shaping the way students understand themselves and from issues of ministry practice. Second, each provides a "cultural tool kit" of knowledge, practices, and skills that students use to construct strategies of action for the various problems and issues that will confront them as pastors or in other forms of ministry. In the concluding chapters, the authors explore the implications of their findings for theories of institutional culture and professional socialization and for interpreting the state of religion in America. They identify some of the practical dilemmas that theological and other professional schools currently face, and reflect on how their findings might contribute to their solution. This accessible, thought-provoking study will not only illuminate the structure and process by which culture educates and forms, but also provide invaluable insights into important dynamics of American religious life.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195114930
• ISBN 13: 9780195114935
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320