James Crewdson Turner (born June 25, 1946) is an

intellectual historian Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual histor ...

and Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

. After receiving his PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1975, he taught at the

College of Charleston The College of Charleston (CofC or Charleston) is a public university in Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, it is the oldest university in South Carolina, the 13th oldest institution of higher learning in the Unit ...

(1975–1977), the

University of Massachusetts Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a Public university, public research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus Un ...

(1977–1984), and the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

(1984–1995) before moving to Notre Dame. In 1980, James authored ''Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind'', which documented the history of

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that emerged in Britain during the early 19th-century and spread to the United States after the Civil War.

Selected publications

* ''Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980 * ''Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985 * ''The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton'',

Johns Hopkins University Press The Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and is the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. The press publi ...

, 1999 * ''The Sacred and the Secular University'' (with

Jon H. Roberts Jon Harlan Roberts is an American historian currently serving as the Tomorrow Foundation Professor of History at Boston University. Education *BA, University of Missouri, 1969 *MA, Harvard University, 1970 *PhD, Harvard University, 1980 Selected ...

), Princeton University Press, 2000 * ''Language, Religion, Knowledge: Past and Present'',

University of Notre Dame Press The University of Notre Dame Press is a university press that is part of the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. The press was founded in 1949, and is the largest Catholic university press in the world. References ...

, 2003 * ''The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue'' (with

Mark A. Noll Mark Allan Noll (born 1946) is an American historian specializing in the history of Christianity in the United States. He holds the position of Research Professor of History at Regent College, having previously been Francis A. McAnaney Professor o ...

Brazos Press Baker Publishing Group is a Christian book publisher that discusses historic Christian happenings for its evangelical readers. It is based in Ada, Michigan and has six subdivisions: namely Bethany House, Revell, Baker Books, Baker Academic, Chos ...

, 2008 * ''Religion Enters the Academy: The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America'',

University of Georgia Press The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is the university press of the University of Georgia, a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia. It is the oldest and la ...

, 2011 * ''Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities'',

Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial su ...

, 2014

References

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