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Fundamentalist U : keeping the Faith in American Higher Education / Adam Laats.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laats, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education--Political aspects--United States.
- Education.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Adam Laats offers a provocative and definitive history of conservative evangelical colleges and universities, institutions that have played a decisive role in American politics, culture, and religion. This work looks unflinchingly at the issues that have defined these schools, including their complicated legacy of conservative theology and social activism.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Higher (power) education
- College and Christ
- In the beginning
- A mote in the eye
- "I came to be went with"
- Billy Graham was a transfer student
- What is college for?
- Nightmare on College Avenue
- Is the Bible racist?
- Learn one for the Gipper
- Epilogue: Sandals of the evangelical mind.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 12, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-066564-5
- 0-19-066565-3
- 0-19-066563-7
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