The Holiest Campus’, its Decline and Transformation
The University of New England, 1946–79
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10198697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald R Beer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 318-336 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4227 • E-ISSN: 1467-9809 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9809.00042 |
| OpenAlex | W1965166373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
In the mid‐1960s and possibly earlier the University of New England (UNE), located at Armidale in rural New South Wales, was reputed to be ‘the holiest campus’ in Australia. The article finds a considerable body of evidence to give credibility to this view. It argues that UNE was relatively religious because it drew more of its students from the most devout social groups in Australia than other universities and because those students were then proselytized by religious societies that operated effectively and with strong clerical support in a small, cohesive institution. The ethos of UNE was broadly Christian, perhaps more so than that of metropolitan universities. After 1965 there was a substantial decline in religious practice, belief and influence at UNE, as apparently at other Australian universities and in Australia as a whole. In the case of UNE, secularization was more than a decline in civil or social religion, more than a process of decline through differentiation: in the first half of the 1960s over half of the student body was highly religious but by the late 1970s the proportion had fallen to one‐fifth to one‐quarter. Associated with this decline was a transformation of religious activity marked by the reassertion of Christian denominationalism and the emergence of a non‐Christian spiritual sensibility
Archaeology · Credibility · Ethos · Institution · Metropolitan area · Miracle · New england · Political science · Quarter (Canadian coin · Secularization · Sensibility · Social science · Sociology · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Religious studies
The Religious Practices of First Year University Students
Changes in Religious Attitudes and Behaviour Among Students at the University of New England
Religion and University Education in Australia
Thinking about Australian Religious History
The Social Gospel and the Church of England in New South Wales in the 1930s
Religious Change and Secularization
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |