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English
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Eugene England's Calculated Risk : The Struggle for Academic Freedom and Religious Dialogue
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Sunstone
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December 2010
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161
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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38-42
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"In a recent lecture at the University of Utah, Krista Tippett, host of the NPA radio show, Speaking of Faith, argued that religion needs a place in the public university. During the twentieth century, most people practiced their religions privately, she said, not imagining that intelligent public religious discussion could occur without proselytizing. But academia is now beginning to recognize religion and spirituality as an essential part of any discipline, and religious studies programs are being established in many U.S. universities. This new development is one that Eugene England envisioned in the 1960s when he began to see how fruitful a dialogue between the secular and spiritual could be. England was an influential professor of English and Mormon literature who taught at Brigham Young University, and at Utah Valley State College (now Utah Valley University). He was a pioneer in Mormon literature studies, responsible for many important publications, a teacher of numerous Mormon studies classes, and a founder of academic religious studies programs." [From author's introduction]