Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education

by Adam Laats

Book Overview

Colleges, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190665629
• ISBN13: 9780190665623
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"