Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alternative solution is the creation of an autonomous religion department under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, modeled after the Comparative Literature Department. This department would appoint men as needed to teach specific courses. The problem of deciding, time after time to appoint Divinity School men to direct undergraduate courses would thus be avoided...
...Faculty has long debated how to fit courses taught by Divinity School, professors into the Arts and Sciences curriculum. Kristor Stendahl, Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies, has said that one possible solution would be to have all religion courses directed by the Committee on Higher Degrees in the Study of Religion, which now only supervises the Ph.D. program in religions...
Members of both Faculties have questioned whether a professional school should take an active part in undergraduate teaching. The problem, Krister Stendahl, chairman of the subcommittee, says, is deciding "what it means to teach religion in the context of arts and sciences and what it means to teach ministers...
...creation of a distinct field of religions within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences might engender other problems. The traditional feeling has been that religion is a "special" discipline that cannot be studied objectively in its own right, as philosophy or history...
Many state universities and most Ivy League colleges, however, have changed their conception of religion on a field of study and have recently established religion departments...