Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America (Critical Social Thought) [Hardcover]

Susan D. Rose (Author)

Book Description

Series: Critical Social Thought | Publication Date: November 3, 1988

This book examines the kinds of educational alternatives evangelicals have structured for their children, and how people relate to one another within the church-family-school network. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates of sociology, anthropology, education, religion and psychology.

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From Publishers Weekly

The Christian School Movement, inter-denominational and Protestant, is the fastest growing sector of private education in the United States, we're told here. In an instructive, in-depth look at two evangelical Christian fellowships and schools in upstate New YorkLakehaven and Covenantsociologist Rose examines why alternatives to the public school system are attractive to those who believe that "urban elites" are altering the American landscape of traditional values. An extension of the New Right polity, itself a product of aversion to the turbulence of the '60s and '70s, conservative groups support a cultural return to the primacy of family, its members governed by fundamentalist morality, according to the author. Focusing on two different groups who are "negotiating their way in the modern world," this balanced study acknowledges the innovative as well as the reactionary aspects of evangelism and its paradoxical role in contemporary America.
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About the Author

Susan D. Rose is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dickinson College. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1St Edition edition (November 3, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415900042
• ISBN-13: 978-0415900041
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,971,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan D. Rose is Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology and Director of the Community Studies Center at Dickinson College (Ph.D. Cornell 1984). She is author of two books and numerous articles on religious movements in the U.S., Guatemala, the Philippines, and South Korea. Her work on the sociology of religion, gender, violence, and education has been tranlsated into 5 languages. She has produced a number of documentary films, including "An Argentine Mosaic: Destino Patagonia;" "Clothesline;" and "The Lost Ones: Long Journey Home." Committed to diversity education, she has been involved in innovative Mosaic projects that link the global and the local, focusing on the bridging of local, transnational, and global communities. She is a recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Michael Harrington Distinguished Teaching Award from the National Poverty Forum and the SSSP, and has appeared on "The Best of Our Knowledge."

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