Hijacking history : how the Christian right teaches history and why it matters / Kathleen Wellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wellman, Kathleen Anne, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and education--United States--History.

Church and education.

Christian education--United States--History.

Christian education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Hijacking History analyzes the high school world history textbooks produced by the three most influential publishers of Christian educational materials and their collective effect on students' understanding of the past and its consequences for the present. In assuming that God sanctions fundamentalist positions on social, political, and economic issues, students are led to believe that that the ultimate mission of America is to advance evangelical Christianity and capitalism throughout the world, with monumental civic ramifications.

Contents:

cover

Hijacking History

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Why This Book?

1. The Publishers and Their Books

2. What Christianity?

3. What Is History?

4. The Beginning of History

5. Misguided Ancients

6. Medieval Darkness, a Dim Renaissance

7. The Triumph of Protestant Truth

8. The Fruits of the Reformation

9. What Reason Wrought

10. "As a City on a Hill"

11. The Christian Nation

12. Christian Colonialism and Capitalism

13. Bad Ideas and Deplorable Politics

14. The Wages of Sin

15. Evil Abroad and at Home

16. The Righteous Right

Conclusion: Toward End Times or Christian Hegemony

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-757925-6

0-19-757926-4

0-19-757924-8