04387cam a2200505 i 4500 20596831 BJBSDDR 20260702162529.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 180724s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng d 2017277919 0190665629 (hardcover) 9780190665623 (hardcover) 20596831 (OCoLC)994419254 YDX eng YDX rda GZM TUU LNT ICW LML IGA OCLCF DLC eng lccopycat n-us--- LC 586 L111f 2018 378.07173 Laats, Adam 48224 Fundamentalist U : keeping the faith in American higher education / Adam Laats. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018. x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 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. 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 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. Evangelicalism United States. Christian universities and colleges United States. Religious education Political aspects United States. Fundamentalism United States. Educación Aspectos políticos 445 Estados Unidos Enseñanza superior 10436 Estados Unidos Educación religiosa 4970 Universidades católicas 49390 Estados Unidos 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 126969 126969 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2026-04-30 0 LC 586 L111f 2018 00000199060 2026-04-30 11:49:00 1 2026-04-30 BK