Denominational Higher Education during World War II

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Laukaitis, John J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Higher education.; Church and education.; Education-History.; Higher Education.; Religion and Education.; History of Education.

This book examines how World War II affected denominational colleges who faced a national crisis in relationship to their Christian tenets and particular religious communities and student bodies. With denominational positions ranging from justifying the war in light of the existential threat that th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Staying "On the Beam": Pepperdine College During World War II
• Chapter 3. "In War as in Peace, Culture for Service": Sioux Falls College and the Successive Crises of Depression and War
• Chapter 4. "The Charity of Christ Urges Us": Women, War, and the Four Freedoms at the College of Mount St. Joseph
• Chapter 5. Service, Faith, and Race: North Park College During World War II
• Chapter 6. "Bulwark of Democracy": Optimism and Identity at Sterling College in the War Years
• Chapter 7. Noncombatancy and Patriotism: Walla Walla College in World War II
• Chapter 8. Huntington College, Liberal Education, and the Struggle for "Christian Democracy" in the World War II Era
• Chapter 9. More Than One Kind of Blitzkrieg to Resist: Houghton College's Response to World War II
• Chapter 10. World War II Comes to Whitworth College
• Chapter 11. Spiritual Values of a New Civilization: World War II and the Transformation of Mississippi College
• Chapter 12. Struggling for Survival: Louisiana College in World War II
• Chapter 13. The World at our Gate: Wartime Sanctuary and Foreign Detention at Montreat College. .