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God on the QuadGod on the Quad

How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation are Changing America

By Naomi Schaefer Riley

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Religious colleges and universities in the United States are growing at a breakneck pace. By the tens and hundreds of thousands, some of America’s brightest and most dedicated teenagers are choosing a different kind of college education, one that promises all the rigor of traditional liberal arts schools but also includes religious instruction from the Good Book and a mandate from above.

In this eye-opening report, Naomi Schaefer Riley investigates these schools, interviewing administrators, professors, and students to produce the first comprehensive account of this important trend. With a critical but sympathetic eye, she takes the reader inside the halls of more than a dozen schools that are training grounds for the new missionary generation―Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Mormon, and even Buddhist. What distinguishes these colleges from their secular counterparts? What do its students think about political activism, feminism, academic freedom, dating, race relations, homosexuality, and religious tolerance? The surprising answers in God on the Quad are a key to understanding the forces at work in post-9/11 America.

Reviews

An insightful, balanced, and respectful guide to this world, one that its own members will find provocative and from which strangers to it will learn a great deal.
–Alan Wolfe, Director of the Boisi Center for Religion & American Public Life at Boston College

A joy to read, this book is also an arresting picture of a new generation that is poised to change the face of our culture and public life.
–Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Lucid and meticulously researched…. Anyone who still believes that religious colleges must abandon or dilute their religious mission in order to make a real contribution to American society will discover that something closer to the opposite is true.
–Wilfred M. McClay, University of Oklahoma

Riley presents an engrossing survey…this book is a fascinating anthropological glimpse into unfamiliar pockets of religious America.
–Publishers Weekly

Balanced treatment of a socially potent movement in higher education.
–Booklist

Naomi Schaefer Riley spent a year touring the parallel universe of religious colleges…. The results are illuminating–and important.
–Terry Teachout

It is no small feat to provide the in-depth, interesting, and absolutely objective overview that Naomi Schaefer Riley does.
–Coleen Rowley

An important and refreshing new look.
–Alphonse Vinh, National Public Radio

Her writing is as light as conversation, but her thinking goes as deep as the dispute in American education today.
–Harvey Mansfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Inspiring! A sympathetic, moving, insightful, thoroughly and clearly reported account.
–David Klinghoffer

Insightful and challenging…. Riley is a wonderful chronicler of a little-known academic world where faith and reason still intersect.
–David Gibson

Eye-opening.
–John W. Rogers, Jr. Nacacnet.Org

It’s the Deity, Dude
The Washington PostJuly 10, 2005

A Higher Education
Crisis June 14, 2005

The University Under the Microscope
There’s hope for higher ed.

 May 19, 2005

Q&A: Exploring the Rise of Religious Universities
Q&A with Naomi Schaefer Riley

 May 6, 2005

Religious Schools Train Lawyers for Culture Wars
 May 6, 2005

Myths of the Faith-Based Campus
Why Blue America need not be appalled by religious colleges.
 May 4, 2005

Have faith in governing
 April 13, 2005

Students seeking answers on faith
 April 13, 2005

Higher Learning
Commentary April 2005

More Students Applying to America’s Religious Colleges
 
March 29, 2005

Finding and keeping faith, in 10 new religious titles
 March 27, 2005

Between Heaven and Hell, Religious Colleges Thrive
The Chronicle of Higher Education March 18, 2005

Religious colleges contribute to improving the whole society
 
March 15, 2005

A savvier breed of missionary student
 
March 15, 2005

The new school spirit
By Jay Tolson

March 14, 2005

Religious Colleges Coming of Age
 
March 12, 2005

Mission to Blue America
By Marvin Olasky

 
March 12, 2005

Faith Based
By Benjamin Healy
The New Republic 
March 10, 2005

New missionaries
By Nancy Sheehan
 
March 4, 2005

The Red State kids are alright
By Brian Goslow
 February 24, 2005

FAITH-BASED U
By Arnold Ahlert
New York Post
February 20, 2005

God takes many forms on U.S. religious campuses
By Albert B. Southwick
 
February 20, 2005

Sex on the Religious Campus
By Stanley Kurtz

NRO 
February 9, 2005

Religion in the media
The Dallas Morning News 
February 9, 2005

The Old College Try
By Rachel Donadio

The New York Times 
February 6, 2005

Q&A with Naomi Schaefer Riley
By Mary A. Jacobs

The Dallas Morning News 
February 4, 2005

Review of God on the Quad
By Jonathan Berry
 
February 2, 2005

Keeping Up With Christ on Campus
Review by James Kirchick
 
January 31, 2005

The reinvention of Hillary Clinton
By Suzanne Fields
 
January 31, 2005

Looking at why college students pick religiously affiliated schools
By Wendy Hoke
 
January 30, 2005

God Power on Campus
Review by Peter Steinfels

The New York Times 
January 16, 2005

‘Quad’ looks at religious colleges
Review by Susan Whitney

 
January 16, 2005

Their Idea of a University
Review by Charlotte Allen
Wall Street Journal 
January 5, 2005

A new view of red vs. blue
Review by Roger K. Miller
December 26, 2004

Review of God on the Quad
 
November 29, 2004

Magazine examines virtues and values
Commentary by Robert Z. Nemeth

 
November 21, 2004

Published by Ivan R. Dee
June 2011
Hardcover: 216 pages
9781566638869

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