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100	1		_aLaats, Adam _eauthor. _948224
245	1	0	_aFundamentalist U : _bkeeping the faith in American higher education / _cAdam Laats.
264		1	_aNew York, NY, United States of America : _bOxford University Press, _c[2018].
300			_ax, 348 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aAdam 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.
520			_aColleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students. They sell themselves as "experiences" that transform young people in unique ways. The conservative evangelical Protestant network of higher education has been no different. In the twentieth century, when higher education sometimes seemed to focus on sports, science, and social excess, conservative evangelical schools offered a compelling alternative. On their campuses, evangelicals debated what it meant to be a creationist, a Christian, a proper American, all within the bounds of Biblical revelation. Instead of encouraging greater personal freedom and deeper pluralist values, conservative evangelical schools thrived by imposing stricter rules on their students and faculty. In Fundamentalist U, Adam Laats shows that these colleges have always been more than just schools; they have been vital intellectual citadels in America's culture wars. These unique institutions have defined what it has meant to be an evangelical and have reshaped the landscape of American higher education. Students at these schools have been expected to learn what it means to be an educated evangelical in a secularizing society. This book asks new questions about that formative process. How have conservative evangelicals hoped to use higher education to instill a uniquely evangelical identity? How has this identity supported the continuing influence of a dissenting body of knowledge? In what ways has it been tied to cultural notions of proper race relations and proper relations between the sexes? And perhaps most important, how have students responded to schools' attempts to cultivate these vital notions about their selves? In order to understand either American higher education or American evangelicalism, we need to appreciate the role of this influential network of dissenting institutions. Only by making sense of these schools can we make sense of America's continuing culture wars.
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650		0	_aChristian universities and colleges _zUnited States.
650		0	_aReligious education _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aFundamentalism _zUnited States.
650		7	_aEDUCATION / Higher. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION / Christian Education / Children & Youth. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION / Education. _2bisacsh
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