The Academic Revolution

The next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Asian Universities: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges

Courses Taught: Present: higher education politics; social science perspectives on education; higher education research seminar; comparative higher education policy; project completion courses at each graduate level. Past: comparative higher education and public administration; politics of education; Latin American politics; Mexican politics; comparative politics; U.S. national politics. Numerous seminars.

Higher Education and the State in Latin America: Private Challenges to Public Dominance

The Secular Revolution is an examination of the means by which the university as an institution enabled the secularization of America. From a dominant Protestant establishment in the mid‐1800s, science, psychology, law, journalism, medicine and biology authorized the secular revolution. A rising capitalism, a continuing immigrant population increasing the power of cities, also played important roles in this radical shift. Beyond analysis, the problem of this book is strategic, attempting virtually to undo the secular revolution, and to return America to its rightful scientific, political, and religious form.

The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life

Amid the many recent treatments of the global growth of both Christianity and higher education, little to no attention has been given to distinctly Christian higher edu- cation. The survey reported in this essay uses an understanding of Christian education developed from analytical work by Robert Benne to examine the number and nature of colleges and universities that retain and nurture a distinct Christian identity. The results indicate that Christian higher education continues to expand throughout the world, chal- lenging the assumed linear trend toward secularization. This paper focuses upon the results of our survey in countries beyond Canada and the United States where most of the recent growth is occurring. We found a total 579 institutions outside of these areas. When we analyzed the origins, denomination, size, funding, and areas of study of these institutions we found some unique patterns that shed light upon the group as a whole and how they relate to larger trends within higher education.

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Nick Lantinga

Papers

Looking for god in the university: examining trends in Christian higher education