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"For decades, evangelical Protestants have been actively involved in major North American institutions, from sports and entertainment to politics and education to law. But how precisely do such believers and their distinctive religious organizations relate to these secular institutions?".
"In an attempt to address this question, author Paul Bramadat takes readers into the heart of the McMaster University chapter of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF). The largest evangelical student group in North America, the IVCF espouses many conservative Protestant (some would say "fundamentalist") interpretations of the Bible, of women's roles, the age of the earth, alcohol consumption, and sexual ethics.
These beliefs are often in direct conflict with the values and practices that are promoted within the liberal environment of most university campuses.".
"In order to explain this apparent contradiction, Bramadat conducts interviews with members of the McMaster IVCF and explores their various survival strategies. He shows that the secular setting is contested turf, a context within which believers engage in a complex process of negotiation in an attempt to find a fertile place for themselves and the small number of true Christians in a rapidly changing world."--BOOK JACKET.
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Evangelicalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Church and college, Students, McMaster University, Christianity and culture, Etudiants chretiens, Etudiants, Religious life, Christian college students, Vie religieuse, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada, Sociology of ReligionShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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The Church on the World's Turf : An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University (Religion in America Series)
May 31, 2000, Oxford University Press, USA
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Church on the World's Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University
2000, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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"One warm Sunday evening in September 1993, I found myself walking aimlessly around the McMaster University campus."
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