Fundamentalist U
Subtitle: keeping the faith in American higher education
By: Adam Laats
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780190665623
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Christian universities and colleges; Evangelicalism; Religious education
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Higher (power) education; title: College and Christ; title: In the beginning; title: A mote in the eye; title: "I came to be went with"; title: Billy Graham was a transfer student; title: What is college for?; title: Nightmare on College Avenue; title: Is the Bible racist?; title: Learn one for the Gipper; title: Epilogue: Sandals of the evangelical mind; title: Research appendix