Margaret M. Grubiak explores the shifting meaning of religious architecture on American university campuses from the 1920s to the 1960s. In particular, she examines how university leaders employed a number of means, including architecture, to inscribe religion in the physical campus to advance religious identity at a number of elite universities, most with a Protestant heritage, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Chicago. In the face of growing religious diversity as well as serious challenges from secular science, Grubiak contends, university leaders attempted to build chapels as well as other religious-like buildings on campus in order to broker a new role for religion within the largely secular university. Grubiak demonstrates how the religious landscape in the physical campus records this struggle and ultimately proved to be unable to keep religion as a central element of the university mission. By the 1960s, she concludes, university chapels had become white elephants on campus relative to the principal aim of higher education. This richly nuanced work offers a fascinating window into the twentieth-century debate over religion's place in higher education. In short, Grubiak's examination of the religious architecture of universities and the changing strategies that university leaders used to preserve religion's relevance to their institution's educational missions offers an invaluable contribution to the history of the secularisation of American higher education.