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It's All About Jesus! - Faith as an Oppositional Collegiate Subculture (Paperback)
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What it is like to be a collegian involved in a Christian
organization on a public college campus? What roles do Christian
organizations play in the lives of college students enrolled in a
public college? What are evangelical student organizations
political agendas, and how do they mobilize members to advance
these agendas? What is the optimal equilibrium between the secular
and the sacred within public higher education? What constitutes
safe space for evangelical students, and who should provide this
space? This book presents a two-year ethnographic study of a
collegiate evangelical student organization at a public university,
authored by two non-evangelicals. The authors provide a glimpse
into the lives of college students who join evangelical student
organizations and who subscribe to an evangelical way of life
during their college years. They offer empirically derived insights
as to how students participation in a homogeneous evangelical
student organization enhances their satisfaction of their
collegiate experience and helps them develop important life lessons
and skills. Ironically, while Christian students represent the
religious majority on the campus under study, Christian
organizations on this campus mobilize members by capitalizing on
members shared sense of marginalization, and position themselves as
cultural outsiders. This evangelical student organization serves as
a safe space for students to express their faith within the larger
secular university setting.The narratives and interpretations aim
not only to enrich understanding of a particular student
organization but more importantly to spark intellectual discourse
about the value of faith-based organizations within public higher
education. The role of religion in public higher education, student
involvement in the co-curriculum, and peer education are three
examples of critical issues in higher education for which this
idiosyncratic case study offers broad understanding. "It s All
About Jesus " targets multiple audiences both sacred and secular.
For readers unfamiliar with evangelical collegiate organizations
and the students they serve, the authors hope the narratives make
the unfamiliar familiar and the dubious obvious. For evangelicals,
the authors hope that the thickly described narratives not only
make the familiar, familiar and the obvious, obvious, but also
uncover the tacit meaning embedded in these familiar, but seldom
examined subculture rituals. The authors hope this book spurs
discussion on topics such as campus power and politics, how
organizations interact with the secular world around them, and how
members can improve their organizations. Additionally, this text
urges secular readers in student affairs to consider the many
benefits, as well as liabilities, of parachurches as co-curricular
learning sites on campus.Lastly, given that the authors lay bare
their methodology, their use of theory, and the tensions between
their perspectives and those of the participants, this book will
serve as a compelling case study for courses on qualitative
research within religion studies, anthropology, sociology, and
cultural studies fields."
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