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Author Rosin, Hanna.

Title God's Harvard : a Christian college on a mission to save America / Hanna Rosin.

Imprint Orlando : Harcourt, [2008], c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  378.75528 R731g 2008    ---  Available
Edition 1st Harvest ed.
Description 296 p. ; 21 cm.
Note "Patrick Henry College positions itself as a training ground for God's cultural soldiers to take on the secular mainstream; at the seven-year-old Virginia school for evangelicals, religion and political journalist Rosin reports, girls are warned by e-mail if their bra strap is showing, dating requires parental permission and students fast forward through sex scenes in movies. Though they might seem out of touch, students here are as ambitious as any Ivy Leaguers, interning in the White House and Hollywood, volunteering on political campaigns and doggedly pursuing studies like baraminology (creationist biology). Having spent a year and a half immersed in the campus culture, Rosin weaves a deft and honest narrative of evangelical education, combining historical background (the roots of evangelism, the story of founder Michael Farris), close observation and skeptical wit."--Reed Business.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296).
Subject Patrick Henry College (Purcellville, Va.)
College students -- Religious life -- Virginia -- Purcellville.
College students -- Virginia -- Purcellville -- Conduct of life.
Christian education -- Virginia -- Purcellville.
Community colleges -- Virginia -- Purcellville.
ISBN 0156034999 (pbk.)
9780151012626
0151012628
9780156034999 (pbk.)

 
    
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