James Turner (historian)

James Crewdson Turner (born June 25, 1946) is an intellectual historian and Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Notre Dame. After receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1975, he taught at the College of Charleston (1975-77), the University of Massachusetts-Boston (1977-84), and the University of Michigan (1984-95) before moving to Notre Dame.^[1]

Selected bibliography

• Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities, Princeton University Press, 2014
• Religion Enters the Academy: The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America, University of Georgia Press, 2011
• The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue (with Mark A. Noll), Brazos Press, 2008
• Language, Religion, Knowledge: Past and Present, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003
• The Sacred and the Secular University (with Jon H. Roberts), Princeton University Press, 2000
• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
• Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985
• Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980

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