American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fundame

The Sacred Secular examines cultural spaces where people are experiencing something sacred. These places are not in the church. They’re in yoga studios, neigh

Sacred and secular worldviews have long held a place in U.S. higher education, although non-religious perspectives have usually been privileged in the modern er

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This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward mor