Keeping Them out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America (Critical Social Thought) - Softcover

Rose, S. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415902991 ISBN 13: 9780415902991

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan is no joke. It is a serious preocupation which consumes the energy of millions of evangelical parents and educators in the U.S. today. Sociologist Susan Rose carried out extensive fieldwork and presents an in-depth ethnographic study focusing on the meaning systems, oranizaitonal structures, and daily lives of the people she met. Her findings will emerge as essential reading for those on the left, on the right, and in the middle. initially anger at attempts by th

About this title

About the Author:

Susan D. Rose is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dickinson College.

From Publishers Weekly:

In an instructive, in-depth look at two evangelical Christian fellowships and schools in upstate New York, 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," reported PW .
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About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0415902991
• ISBN 13: 9780415902991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228