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Fundamentalist U : keeping the faith in American higher education / Adam Laats.
LIBRA LC621 .L33 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laats, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian universities and colleges--United States.
- Christian universities and colleges.
- Religious education.
- United States.
- Evangelicalism--United States.
- Evangelicalism.
- Religious education--Political aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 348 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Adam Laats offers a provocative and definitive new history of conservative evangelical colleges and universities, institutions that have played a decisive role in American politics, culture, and religion. This book looks unflinchingly at the issues that have defined these schools, including their complicated legacy of conservative theology and social activism.
- Contents:
- 1 College and Christ 12
- 2 In the Beginning 27
- 3 A Mote in the Eye 56
- 4 "I Came to Be Went With" 87
- 5 Billy Graham Was a Transfer Student 122
- 6 What Is College For? 157
- 7 Nightmare on College Avenue 190
- 8 Is the Bible Racist? 218
- 9 Learn One for the Gipper 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0190665629
- 9780190665623
- OCLC:
- 994419254
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