History and Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4509287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sidney E Mead (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4189 • E-ISSN: 1549-6538 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/486245 |
| OpenAlex | W2051351121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Long ago and far away when I was still experiencing the metamorphosis from graduate student to faculty member and, being a child of depression, wondering at the munificent salary the University of Chicago was paying me for doing what I liked to do, I began to wonder (as had Charles Beard before me) why society paid me at all. You will recognize that this was the question of the purpose of teaching American religious history, formulated in the context of a functionalist approach. It meant, What does the teaching of such history have to contribute to the functioning of our society ? That question has haunted me ever since-my every course, my every class session. It has plagued the reading of examinations, papers, and dissertations. In the midst of the most routine duties of a professor I have asked myself with varying emphasis, What am I doing here ? For about five and twenty of my almost thirty years of teaching during which I was responsible only for graduate students in theological schools and history departments, the answer was not too difficult. It could be
Aesthetics · Art · Class (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Reading (process) · Sociology · Wonder · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2005 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |