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So there is probably some kind of scale from orthodox to reformed, with theological parts of theology departments at one end and very social science parts of religious studies departments at the other. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
This ties into something I have been thinking about regarding academic disciplines that are dominant in political elite discourse and thus required reading to get into the political elite. I think they tend to be tailored after the needs of the ruling elite, in terms of collective narrative to motivate teh existence of said elite, common language and tools of power. These do not always match, claiming for example that military victory is granted by God serves the narrative well regarding the victories that brought the eltie into power but serves poorly in understanding military as a tool of power.
So do empires change their dominant academic discipline, and if so how does it happen? Which leads to the question of what was the dominant academic discipline of past empires. Was history mandatory for the Brittish elite, and if so does the fall of the Brittish empire explain why the grand narratives died in history? Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
does the fall of the British empire explain why the grand narratives died in history?
I suspect, however, that the grand narrative could have been sustained for the USA at least into the 80s. And while the post-modernist critiques have seriously undercut such views, I don't think we can say that the US triumphalists have capitulated. But these are not the sorts of efforts that are widely supported in US Academia. History is still widely presented devoid of any meaningful social theory framework. This was the stronghold of Marxist historians and thus remains suspicious in the USA. "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
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