Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education - Image 1

£58.10

Routledge Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education

Name: Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education
Brand: Routledge
Price: 58.1 GBP
Availability: InStock

Catholic

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£58 today · usual range £51–£106 · best ever £51

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 88 days · 88 data points

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 88 days • 6 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £51 (20 days, 22.7%)

Price range: £51 - £106

Price levels: 6 different prices over 88 days

Description

The debate within Catholic educational circles on whether church sponsored colleges and universities perpetuate mediocrity by giving too great a priority to the moral development of students instead of scholarship and intellectual excellence continues in this book by sociologist Anne Hendershott. She asserts that part of the reason for the crisis of faith within Catholic colleges is due to status envy--the desire to compete with the top colleges in the country. Catholic universities are generally not rated as top-notch. They are viewed as having a lower status than secular institutions, which, of course, creates resentment. Catholic universities, in turn, become more secular as they become consumed with status concerns. Detailing how this resentment manifests itself on campuses, Hendershott explains faculty and administrative attempts to distance universities from Catholic ideas and curriculum. Some have distanced themselves so far from their Catholic origins that the church no longer recognizes them as Catholic institutions. The author questions whether even determined Catholic universities will be able to avoid the pressures to become more secular. Hendershott, who clearly sympathizes with the original mission of Catholic universities, leads the reader through the earliest signs that Catholic colleges were beginning to lose their way in the 1960s, up through the ongoing issues of feminism and homosexuality and their impact. In focusing on these secular issues, colleges are denying exposure to the traditional Catholic views on subjects such as homosexuality, women's ordination, and abortion. Like all culture wars, the interaction among people defines the situation. The campus is a reflection of the greater culture between those who assert that there are no truths, only readings--and those who believe that the truths have been revealed and require constant rereading and application. It is a conflict between those dedicated to the negation of the authority of Scripture and the hierarchy of the church, and those proposing a renaissance of the Catholic intellect and a renewed appreciation of the church itself.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1412808170
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Catholic
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 February 2009
Listed Since: 15 May 2008

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers

American Catholics in Transition: Persisting and Changing

Come Follow Me and Foresake Temptation: Catholic Schooling and the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers for Religious Teaching Orders, 1922-1965

The Catholic Church in World Politics (Princeton Legacy Library): 785

Making Meaning: Embracing Spirituality, Faith, Religion, and Life Purpose in Student Affairs (An ACPA Co-Publication)

Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: Trusting the Clergy?

Nouvelle Theologie - New Theology: Inheritor of Modernism, Precursor of Vatican II

Reading the Signs: Using Case Studies to Discuss Student Life Issues at Catholic Colleges and Universities in the United States

I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and Pastimes

Beacon of Justice, Community, and Hope: How NCR has sustained independent journalism from Vatican II to Pope Francis

The Correspondence of Alexander Goss, Bishop of Liverpool 1856-1872 (Catholic Record Society: Records Series)

De Lubac: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)

Researching Catholic Education: Contemporary Perspectives

American Law from a Catholic Perspective: Through a Clearer Lens (Catholic Social Thought)

Die Herausforderung der Diktaturen: Katholizismus in Deutschland und Italien 1918-1943/45: 21 (Reihe Der Villa Vigoni)

Catholic School Leadership (Research on Religion and Education)

Macmillan Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland Book

The Second Vatican Council: Celebrating its Achievements and the Future

Online Catholic Communities: Community, Authority, and Religious Individualization (Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture)

Unruly Catholics from Dante to Madonna: Faith, Heresy, and Politics in Cultural Studies