1st Edition

Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan Evangelical Schooling in America

By Susan Rose Copyright 1988
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1988, this work was the product of extensive fieldwork in two evangelical communities. This in-depth ethnographic study focuses on the meaning systems, organizational structures and the daily lives of the people Susan D. Rose encountered. The study is centred around Christian schooling as a method of socialisation. Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the development of... Read more

Series Editor’s Introduction

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. A Search for Coherence

2. Morals and Quarrels: Christian Schools and Social Change

3. To Live in Fellowship: Covenant Community

4. School Life: Covenant School

5. To Live in Fellowship: Lakehaven Community

6. School Life: The Academy

7. Spheres of Influence

8. Rhetoric and Reality: Two Views of the World

9. Teaching Discipline: Socializing Disciples

10. Re-creation or Re-production? A Critique of Christian Schools

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Susan Rose