A "Christian America" RestoredThis is a dissertation. The subtitle is "The Rise of the Evangelical Christian School Movement in America, 1920-1952."
The author of this 2012 dissertation is Robert G. Slater. It is made available free by Graduate School at Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. The author's abstract states "The result of this study revealed several conclusions. First, contrary to widely held views that the Christian school movement started as a reaction to de-segregation and the turbulence of the 1960s, this movement actually predated this era by at least thirty years. Second, the study found that this movement was a direct reaction to the decline of protestant influence in America over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Third, this dissertation found that this movement goes back to the long held belief that America was founded as a Christian nation and should remain as such in the minds of evangelicals. Therefore, the thesis of this study states that the Christian school movement, responding to a century of change and adversity, emerged in the twentieth century as a means for evangelical Christians to reclaim their loss of power within the nation, their communities, and their homes in an increasingly complex American society."
