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04394aam a2200457 i 4500 001 6AA3AE7A81D911E99AF5890297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190529010317 008 180724s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2017277919 020 $a 9780190665623 020 $a 0190665629 035 $a (OCoLC)994419254 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GZM $d TUU $d LNT $d ICW $d LML $d IGA $d OCLCF $d GZN $d YDX $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a LC586.F85 $b L33 2018 082 04 $a 378.07173 $2 23 100 1 $a Laats, Adam, $e author. 245 10 $a Fundamentalist U : $b keeping the faith in American higher education / $c Adam Laats. 264 1 $a New York, NY, United States of America : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a x, 348 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Evangelicalism $z United States. 650 0 $a Christian universities and colleges $z United States. 650 0 $a Religious education $x Political aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Fundamentalism $z United States. 650 7 $a EDUCATION / Higher. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / Christian Education / Children & Youth. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / Education. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Christian universities and colleges. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01735737 650 7 $a Evangelicalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917002 650 7 $a Fundamentalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00936186 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 1 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041633.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6AA3AE7A81D911E99AF5890297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IOOInitiate Another SILO Locator Search