In the 1990s, Christian colleges and universities experienced a record boom in students and employees. However, less than twenty years later Christian institutions experienced new challenges spurred...
Christian higher education (CHE) is increasingly a transnational and global endeavor, with over one-sixth of the almost two hundred institutional members of the Council for Christian Colleges &...
The public university classroom is a place where socialization still occurs: it's where students learn to be citizens of the world. Having attended to political correctness and multi-culturalism, universities...
Like other creatures, human beings are inhabitants of their ecosystems. But are humans good inhabitants? According to Jennifer Ayres, the way of inhabitance is stubbornly elusive. The work of understanding,...
A Historical, Judicial, and Political Examination of Public School Prayer
by Lynda B. Fenwick
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481311052
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2018
Format: Paperback
The author traces the history of public school prayer in America and the legal debates since the 1962 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed the practice. The book thus makes available the historical and...
A well-worn, often-told tale of woe. American higher education has been secularized. Religion on campus has declined, died, or disappeared. Deemed irrelevant, there is no room for the sacred in American...
Religious and Political Bias in American Higher Education
by George Yancey
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781602584778
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: May 2017
Format: Paperback
Conservative and liberal commentators alike have long argued that social bias exists in American higher education. Yet those arguments have largely lacked much supporting evidence. In this first systematic...
Edited by Pui-lan Kwok, Cecilia González-Andrieu and Dwight N. Hopkins
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481302852
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2015
Format: Paperback
Theological education, like theology itself, is becoming a truly global enterprise. As such, theological education has to form, teach, and train leaders of faith communities prepared to lead in a transnational...
A Higher Education collects the work of renowned scholars on the importance and mission of Christian higher education. Placing Baylor University at the center of these discussions, this compendium...
The Schooled Heart addresses a basic question about the nature of the university: should moral education figure among the university's purposes? This volume offers an affirmative response to that question....
Connecting Christian Higher Education to a Call to Service
Edited by Michael R. Miller
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781932792805
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2007
Format: Paperback
Vocation is most often linked with a specific calling for those in professional ministry. Doing More with Life explores the way higher education can expand this limited understanding of vocation. Specifically,...
The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury--and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily...
Professing in the Postmodern Academy examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members critically committed to the future of church-related...
