Displacing the divine [[electronic resource] ] : the minister in the mirror of American fiction / / Douglas Alan Walrath

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458698503321
• Autore: Walrath Douglas Alan <1933->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-79662-3; 9786612796623; 0-231-52180-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Collana: Religion and American culture
• Disciplina: 813/.00935823
• Soggetti: American fiction - History and criticism; Clergy in literature; Christianity and literature - United States - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Fiction as a mirror of culture -- Exposing the divine : 1790s-1850s -- Faltering fathers and devious divines : popular images. Misfits in America ; Harsh Puritans and fanatical Calvinists ; Scoundrels in collars -- Clerics in contention : church images. Liberal challengers ; Faithful Calvinists ; Precarious pastors -- Vulnerable divines : radical images. Victims of their believing ; Perpetrators of oppression ; Exposing the divine -- Discrediting the divine : 1860s-1920s -- Compulsives and accommodators : popular images (1). Compelled believers ; Compulsive believers ; Accommodating believers ; Prudent believers -- Con men in collars and heroes of the cloth : popular images (2). Phony preachers ; Muscular ministers ; Gallant parsons -- Activist preachers and their detractors : popular images (3). Social ministers ; Entrenched reactionaries ; Social activists ; Utopian idealists -- Champions of the faith : church images. Muscular believers ; Social evangelicals -- Foundering divines : radical images. Inept contenders ; Anachronisms -- Flawed divines : radical images. Weak and impotent men ; Pretenders, deceivers, and commercial preachers -- The legacy : 1930s-2000s -- Fallen divines : some contemporary ; images. Deprived preachers : a radical image ; Comic Calvinists : a popular and church image ; Human divines : a popular image -- Conclusion: The legacy of the displaced divine. The displacing : a summary ; The legacy.
• Sommario/riassunto: As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Displacing the Divine offers a novel encounter with social change, giving the reader access, through the intimacy and humanity of literature, to the evolving character of an American tradition.

Linguistic minority students go to college : preparation, access, and persistence / / edited by Yasuko Kanno, Linda Harklau

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779032103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-81494-9; 1-136-81495-7; 0-203-82938-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Classificazione: EDU015000EDU034000FOR007000
• Altri autori (Persone): HarklauLinda; KannoYasuko <1965->
• Disciplina: 378.1/982900973
• Soggetti: Linguistic minorities - Education (Higher) - United States; Minorities - Education (Higher) - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Linguistic Minority Students go to College: Preparation, Acess, and Persistence; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Linguistic Minority Students Go to College: Introduction; Part I: College Preparation in High School; 2. High School ESL Placement: Practice, Policy, and Eff ects on Achievement; 3. Linguistic Minority Students' Opportunities to Learn High School Mathematics; 4. Paving the Way to College: An Analysis of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program Serving Immigrant Students in California; 5. How Paola Mad e It to College: A Linguistic Minority Student's Unlikely Success StoryPart II: Access to College; 6. Top 10% Linguistically Diverse Students' Access and Success at Texas Public Universities; 7. Who are Linguistic Minority Students in Higher Education?: An Analysis of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Study 2004; 8. Immigrant English Learners' Transitions to University: Student Challenges and Institutional Policies; 9. A Linguistic Minority Student's Discursive Framing of Agency and Structure; Part III: College Experiences and Persistence; 10. Navigating "Open Access" Community Colleges: Matriculation Policies and Practices for U.S.-Educated Linguistic Minority Students11. ; Retention of English Learner Students at a Community College; 12. Contextualizing the Path to Academic Success: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Gaining Voice and Agency in Higher Education; 13. Benefits and Costs of Exercising Agency: A Case Study of an English Learner Navigating a Four-Year University ; 14. Citizens vs. Aliens: How Institutional Policies Construct Linguistic Minority Students; About the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Currently, linguistic minority students, students who speak a language other than English at home, represent 21% of the entire K-12 student population and 11% of the college student population. Bringing together emerging scholarship on the growing number of college-bound linguistic minority students in the K-12 pipeline, this ground-breaking volume showcases new research on these students' preparation for, access to, and persistence in college. Other than studies of their linguistic challenges and writing and academic literacy skills in college, little is known about the broader issues of linguistic minority students' access to and success in college. Examining a variety of factors and circumstances that influence the process and outcome, the scope of this book goes beyond students' language proficiency and its impact on college education, to look at issues such as student race/ethnicity, gender, SES, and parental education and expectations. It also addresses structural factors in schooling including tracking, segregation of English learners from English-fluent peers, availability and support of institutional personnel, and collegiate student identity and campus climate. Presenting state-of-the-art knowledge and mapping out a future research agenda in an extremely important and yet understudied area of inquiry, this book advances knowledge in ways that will have a real impact on policy regarding linguistic minority immigrant students' higher education opportunities"-- Provided by publisher.