Title God on the grounds : a history of religion at Thomas Jefferson's University / Harry Y. Gamble

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Jefferson and Religion -- Jefferson and Religious Freedom -- Jefferson's Religious Ideas: Early Influences and Development -- The Influence of Joseph Priestley -- Jefferson's Mature Religious Ideas -- 2. Jefferson's Vision: A Secular University -- The Development of Jefferson's Ideas about the University -- The Rockfish Gap Report -- The Early Search for a Faculty and the Cooper Affair -- A Clever Ploy? Religious Schools on the Margins -- Gilmer's Faculty Search and Jefferson's Anticlericalism The Problem of Public Opinion -- 3. The Early Years: Preachers, Professors, and Public Opinion -- A Bishop's Challenge -- The Chaplaincy -- Contemplating a Chapel -- A Parsonage -- Contemplating a Chapel-Again -- The Piety of Professors -- The Public -- 4. From the Civil War to World War I: Religion Takes Over -- The Early Years of the YMCA -- A University Chapel-at Last -- The Ascendancy of the YMCA -- The Bible Lectureship -- Religion Finds an Academic Home: The School of Biblical History and Literature -- A Religious Institution? -- 5. The Twentieth Century: Retreat from Religion The Chapel and Local Churches -- The Decline of the YMCA -- Religious Subsidies, Scholarships, and Lectures -- The Development and Growth of a Department of Religious Studies -- Negotiating Relationships with Student Religious Groups -- The Resecularization of the University -- Appendix A: Professor Bonnycastle's Plea for a Chapel -- Appendix B: The Teaching of Hebrew at the University -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "A history of religion at the University of Virginia over the course of its two hundred years"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject University of Virginia -- Religion -- History University of Virginia. John B. Cary Memorial Department of Religious Studies -- History SUBJECT University of Virginia fast University of Virginia. John B. Cary Memorial Department of Religious Studies fast Subject Religion -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Virginia -- Charlottesville -- History RELIGION / Philosophy Religion Religion -- Study and teaching (Higher) Virginia -- Charlottesville Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019047805 ISBN 0813944066 9780813944067

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