God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School

Type

Book

Authors

Alan Peshkin

ISBN 10

0226661997

ISBN 13

9780226661995

Tags

Education, Fundamentalism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, BU-RELI, World religion

Description

Is Bethany Baptist Academy God's choice? Ask the fundamentalist Christians who teach there or whose children attend the academy, and their answer will be a yes as unequivocal as their claim that the Bible is God's inerrant, absolute word. Is this truth or arrogance?In God's Choice, Alan Peshkin offers readers the opportunity to consider this question in depth. Given the outsider's rare chance to observe such a school firsthand, Peshkin spent eighteen months studying Bethany's high school—interviewing students, parents, and educators, living in the home of Bethany Baptist Church members, and participating fully in the church's activities. From this intimate research he has fashioned a rich account of Christian schooling and an informed analysis of a clear alternative to public education. - from Amzon

Biblio Notes

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 339-345.

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