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Author Peshkin, Alan.

Title God's choice : the total world of a fundamentalist Christian school / Alan Peshkin
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986

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Description x, 349 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: The setting, the author, the times -- "Blessed assurance" : the dictates of doctrine -- The King's witnesses : called to teach -- The structure of control : until the love of Christ constraineth -- Bethany's didactic milieu : a match for the devil's darts -- Bethany's deviance : schooling for spirituality -- By their fruits : the impact of orthodoxy -- By their fruits : four student portraits -- In Satans clutches : Bethany's scorners -- Bethany's total institution : truth's organization structure -- God's choice : cost and benefits
Analysis Christian schools United States Case studies
Church schools United States Case studies
Fundamentalism Case studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 339-345
Includes index
Subject Church schools -- United States -- Case studies.
Fundamentalism -- Case studies.
LC no. 85024524
ISBN 0226661989
0226661997 (paperback)