| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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The College "Y": Student Religion in the Era of Secularization. By David P. Setran. (New York: Palgrave, 2007. xii, 315 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-6124-2. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-6125-9.)
Dynamic university builders rescued American higher education from the sectarian grasp of denominational colleges in the 1800s. Liberating academia from religion, they pioneered the system we have inherited. That founding myth, most vividly recounted by Richard Hofstadter, dominated academia's historical memory for most of the twentieth century. Several historians in the 1990s, perhaps inspired by a belated recognition of religion's enduring influence, began shading that picture.	1
George M. Marsden's The Soul of the University (1994), Julie A. Reuben's The Making of the Modern University (1996), and Jon H. Roberts and James Turner's The Sacred and the Secular University (2000) depict presidents and faculty of the university-building decades who remained deeply concerned with religion and morality in higher education even as they dispensed with sectarianism and Victorian piety. Those authors describe liberal Protestants who would be horrified by the secularization and marginalization of morality that they unintentionally precipitated.	. . .

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