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In this follow up to Laukaitis' Denominational Higher Education During World War II (Palgrave 2018), this collection investigates connections between religion, student activism, and higher education to reveal the complexity of public reactions to the controversies around the Vietnam War. Historical treatments of how the Vietnam War generated tensions on campuses across the country remain centered on public universities such as University of California-Berkeley, Kent State, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Missing from the historical analysis is how the Vietnam War affected the campuses of Christian liberal arts colleges. This work centers on how Christian liberal arts colleges across the landscape of the United States encountered the national crisis in relationship to their Christian tenets and how particular religious communities and student bodies responded to the war.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Days of Dissension: North Park College During the Vietnam War.- 3. "Bypassing...Houghton's Serene Copse of Academe"? A Wesleyan College's Engagement with the "Perplexities" of Vietnam.- 4. A Time to Build at a Time for War: The Founding Story of Palm Beach Atlantic University.- 5. Whitworth College and the Vietnam War: "Just Take a Stand".- 6. Huntington College, Liberal Education, and the Practice of Christian Democratic Citizenship in the Vietnam War Era.
About the author
John J. Laukaitis is Professor of Education at North Park University, USA.
