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001 2011032271
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008 110804s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781586488437 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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020 $a9781610390507 (e-book)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn657595611
037 $bPerseus Books Group, C/O Perseus Distribution 1094 Flex Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301, (731)9884440$nSAN 631-760X
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050 00 $aLC111$b.S69 2012
082 00 $a379.2/80973$223
100 1 $aStewart, Katherine.
245 14 $aThe Good News Club :$bthe Christian right's stealth assault on America's children /$cKatherine Stewart.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPublicAffairs,$cc2012.
300 $aviii, 291 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, bills itself as an after-school program of "Bible study." But Stewart soon discovered that the Club's real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity and encourage them to proselytize to their "unchurched" peers, all the while promoting the false impression that its activities are endorsed by the school. Astonished to discover that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed this legal, Stewart set off on an investigative journey across the nation to document the impact. As she makes chillingly clear in this journey through the history, politics, and landscape of this new culture war, the rapidly expanding network of Good News Clubs represents just one of a range of initiatives intended to insert conservative forms of evangelical Christianity into public schools--and into society at large. In the communities within which they occur, these initiatives often appear to be spontaneous and local events. But in fact they are organized, funded, coordinated, and guided at a national level by a small number of influential actors. Taken all together, they represent an important new strategy on the part of the Christian Right in its long-running aim to "take back America."--From publisher description.
505 0 $aThe Good News Club comes to town -- All part of the plan -- A wall of separation -- The originalists' new theory -- Little red church-house -- Thy neighbor's children: the 4/14 window -- Don't know much about history: the Texas textbook wars -- Bible "literacy" wars -- Packaging proselytizing as education -- The peer-to-peer evangelism loophole -- Enlisting in the army: how to join the Good News Club -- If you can't own it, break it: the plan to undermine public education.
650 0 $aReligion in the public schools$zUnited States.