Evangelicalism Rebounds in Academe

Autor/in	Lindsay, D. Michael
Titel	Evangelicalism Rebounds in Academe
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 31, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Christianity; Religious Cultural Groups; College Students; College Faculty; Social Change; Individual Differences; Religion + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Christentum; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Sozialer Wandel; Individueller Unterschied
Abstract	In 1993, Michael Weiskopf wrote an article for "The Washington Post" in which he described evangelicals in the United States as "poor, uneducated, and easy to command." Although the comment provoked outrage from evangelicals, Weiskopf's assertion was not without merit. At the time, only 15% of evangelicals held college or graduate degrees. Even though religious conservatives dominated higher education at the turn of the 20th century, by 1993 they had lost their influence within the academy. Yet on campuses across the country, evangelicalism is rebounding. Evangelical students make up growing portions of the incoming classes at Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. They join robust campus-ministry groups that sponsor everything from debates to spring-break "mission" trips. In this article, the author discusses what drives this change and what it may mean for American higher education. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10