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About the Author

Jackson W. Carroll is Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Professor of Religion and Society and Director of the J.M. Ormond Center for Research, Planning and Development at the Duke University Divinity School. Barbara G. Wheeler is President of the Auburn Theological Seminary. Daniel O. Aleshire is Associate Director of the Association of Theological Schools, and Penny Long Marler is Associate
Professor of Religion at Samford University.

Reviews

"The book ultimately presents a compelling analysis of each school's culture and its relationship to student formation. This book will interest sociologists of culture, religion, organizations, and education."--American Journal of Sociology
"By introducing the notion of institutional culture, and applying the ethnographic method to the arena of the religious academy, Being There prepares the way for such a thoroughgoing self-examination on the part of educational institutions, theological and secular alike."--Union Seminary Quarterly Review
"[This] superb study...will serve as a model for other studies of theological education in America and, conceivably, for other types of higher education as well....We have here what could easily become a paradigmatic scholarly approach to the synchronic interpretation of institutions of higher education."--Conrad Cherry, Indiana University
"Being There is an extensive empirical study in the sociology of education with theological education as a case in point...The authors of Being There have painted vivid pictures of theological education, taking us well beyond impressions, nostalgia, and theory."--Christian Century
"This is an important book for anyone interested in theological education, especially anyone interested in trying to reform it....No study has made clearer how narrow is the path between a rock and a hard place for reform of chronically under-funded theological schools."--Teaching Theology and Religion
"The book ultimately presents a compelling analysis of each school's culture and its relationship to student formation. This book will interest sociologists of culture, religion, organizations, and education."--American Journal of Sociology
"By introducing the notion of institutional culture, and applying the ethnographic method to the arena of the religious academy, Being There prepares the way for such a thoroughgoing self-examination on the part of educational institutions, theological and secular alike."--Union Seminary Quarterly Review
"[This] superb study...will serve as a model for other studies of theological education in America and, conceivably, for other types of higher education as well....We have here what could easily become a paradigmatic scholarly approach to the synchronic interpretation of institutions of higher education."--Conrad Cherry, Indiana University
"Being There is an extensive empirical study in the sociology of education with theological education as a case in point...The authors of Being There have painted vivid pictures of theological education, taking us well beyond impressions, nostalgia, and theory."--Christian Century