"Theology Study and teaching (Higher)" . . "Canada." . . "Universities and colleges Curricula Canada History 20th century." . . . . "Theologie." . . "Theology Study and teaching (Higher) Canada History 20th century." . . "Religion Étude et enseignement (Supérieur) Canada Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Universities and colleges Curricula." . . "Hochschule." . . "Enseignement universitaire Programmes d'études Canada Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Religion Study and teaching (Higher)" . . . . "History" . . . . "In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions as well as religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this change in this memoir of his forty-five-year career in the development of religious studies as a new academic field in Canada. He also addresses the shift from theology classes in seminaries to non-sectarian religious studies faculties of arts and humanities; the birth and growth of departments across Canada from the 1960s to the present; the contribution of McMaster University to religious studies in Canada and Coward's Ph.D. experience there; the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria; and the future of religious studies as a truly interdisciplinary enterprise. Coward's retrospective, while not a history as such, documents information from his varied experience and wide network of colleagues that is essential for a future formal history of the discipline. His story is both personally engaging and richly informative about the development of the field. -- Provided by publisher." . . . . . . . "Electronic books" . . "Electronic books"@en . "Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada"@en . . "Fifty years of religious studies in Canada : a personal retrospective" . . . . . . . . . . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Religion Study and teaching (Higher) Canada History 20th century." . . "Théologie Étude et enseignement (Supérieur) Canada Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Religionswissenschaft." . . "Kanada." . .