History, Religion, and American Democracy

Maurice Wohlgelernter, Editor, is Professor of English, and Chairman, Religion and Culture Program, Baruch College, City University of New York.

• Four Ways of Religion and Philosophy, ONE NATURALISM AND SUPERNATURALISM REVISTED 1. John Dewey: The Evolution of a Faith 2. The God of Our Children: The Humanist Reconstruction of God 3. The Supernatural in the Naturalists 4. The Esthetic, the Religious, and the Natural TWO PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF JUDAISM 5. Dating a Mishnah-Tractate: The Case of Tamid 6. The Creator and the Computer 7. Martin Buber and the No-Self Perspective THREE AMERICAN PHILOSOPIHICAL REFLECTIONS 8. Asa Mahan and the Oberlin Philosophy 9. Spires of Influence: The Importance of Emerson for Classical American Philosophy 10. Santayana and the Ideal of Reason 11. The Development of William James’s Epistemological Realism FOUR THE TEACHER AS MORAL AGENT 12. The New Censors of Science 13. Equality and Excellence in the Democratic Ideal 14. Toward a Post-Enlightenment Doctrine of Human Rights 15. Schooling and the Search for a Usable Politics