American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity (PB) 12+

📘 American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity is a qualitative study of how religion and education intersect at one conservativeChristian school. The school is Evangelical and American. The school's curriculum is bible-based and fulfills its state'seducational requirements for high school graduation. While the school has an environment that is Evangelical, the studentslive in a religiously-diverse world. This book documents how three students and their teacher struggle to understand a worldthat challenges their faith. The context for this understanding is how the teacher presents and the three students come to understandCatholicism, Islam, and the indigenous religions of the Americas.Americans continue to debate whether religious schools are too parochial and do not prepare students to live a diverse society.It is the opinion of the editors that this book should put to rest some of this fear. We read the manuscript with a critical editorialeye but found the story a compelling one which challenged us to review the tenets of our own faith. The author's style of presentationis consistent with good scientific discourse yet impels the reader to a view inside the experience of the subjects of thestudy. Reading the manuscript was not only an informative experience but a faith affirming one too. We are very pleased topresent Kevin Taylor's book, American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity as an important part of our series on research onreligion and education.