James Turner (historian)

James Crewdson Turner is an intellectual historian and Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. After receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1975, he taught at the College of Charleston, the University of Massachusetts Boston, and the University of Michigan 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 animal welfare 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, 1980Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999The Sacred and the Secular University, Princeton University Press, 2000 Language, Religion, Knowledge: Past and Present, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue, Brazos Press, 2008Religion Enters the Academy: The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America, University of Georgia Press, 2011Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities, Princeton University Press, 2014