God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America
A Nonfiction, Education, Religion book. Interesting, though I didn't think her description of BYU was...
Religious colleges and universities in the United States are growing at a breakneck pace. By the tens and hundreds of thousands, some of America's brightest and most dedicated teenagers are choosing a different kind of college education, one that promises all the rigor of traditional liberal arts schools but also includes religious instruction from the Good Book and a mandate from above. In this eye-opening report, Naomi Schaefer Riley investigates these schools, interviewing administrators, professors, and students to produce the first comprehensive account of this important trend. With a critical but sympathetic eye, she takes the reader inside the halls of more than a dozen schools that are training grounds for the new missionary generation Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Mormon, and even Buddhist. What distinguishes these colleges from their secular counterparts? What do its students think about political activism, feminism, academic freedom, dating, race relations, homosexuality, and religious tolerance? The surprising answers in God on the Quad are a key to understanding the forces at work in post-9/11...
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- Pages: 274 pages
- ISBN: 9781566636988 / 1566636981
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Interesting, though I didn't think her description of BYU was especially accurate. Naomi Schaefer Riley visited twenty religious colleges in America, including BYU and SVU and wrote God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America. For one thing, it was refreshing to read about people who actually want to be good. All these colleges have a few things in common: rules about... This was a really interesting book and a good read. The only reason I rated it four instead of five stars is because toward the end it really started to drag, like the author had kind of wandered off the path of the rest of the book. But other than that, it was a really fascinating read and I enjoyed it. I especially appreciated that...
