- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages)
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Editions SR
- Uniform Title
- Fifty years of religious studies in Canada (Online)
- Editions SR ; v. 36.
- Alternative Title
- Fifty years of religious studies in Canada (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- Preface -- Early Days: From theology in seminaries to non-sectarian religious studies -- The Golden Decade 1966-1976 -- McMaster Days / My personal experiences of McMaster in early 1970s -- McMaster's contribution to religious studies in Canada -- Growing into maturity: Development of religous studies departments from the late 1970s to the present -- The Centre for Studies in Religioun and society at the University of Victoria -- Taking seriously our interdisciplinary heritage: The future of religious studies -- Conclusion.
- LCCN
- 2016436602
- OCLC
- ssj0001537075
- Author
Coward, Harold G.
- Title
Fifty years of religious studies in Canada [electronic resource] : a personal retrospective / Harold Coward.
- Imprint
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]
- Series
Editions SR
Editions SR ; v. 36.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Issued also in electronic format.
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