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Download full textMacdonald, Michael H. – 1990
European studies can provide a solution to several of the issues raised in Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind." European studies pursue the academic quest for what is truth, what is goodness, and what is beauty. In seeking to answer these questions, the Greeks were among the first to explore many of humanity's problems and…
Descriptors: Christianity, Cultural Influences, European History, French Literature
Popkewitz, Thomas S. – 1984
One of the most important myths in education is that of progress. The idea derives from a specifically Western messianic tradition and contains the belief in the growth and the development of an organism. That belief emerges from Greek and Hebraic thought, is modified in Christian theology, and then is secularized in science. The persistence and…
Descriptors: Christianity, Culture, Development, Evolution
Young, Louise, Ed. – 1974
The reports from this conference deal with the sources, manifestations, and influences of sports and physical education over time, geography, and cultures. Written in a non-technical manner, the twenty-eight articles deal with the relationship of sports to (among others) politics, art, dance, mythology, religion, economics, sociology, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Artists, Athletics, Baseball
