My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood
by Christine Rosen
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This is a touching memoir of growing up in a household, school and town of flourishing Biblical literalism. When Christine Rosen started kindergarten, her ABCs included the Apocalypse, the Bible and Christ. At Keswick Christian School, the Bible was our textbook, God was their guide, and after entering the school gates, nothing was quite the same again. Christian learned creation science, dreamed of becoming a missionary to exotic countries, worried about the souls of Jews and Mormons, and show more experienced unusual methods of sex education. With the threat of nuclear annihilation at the hands of atheistic Russians looming, she also frequently prayed for rapture. At home, Florida life seemed happily to confirm several literal truths: the story of Moses, with its plagues that afflicted the Egyptians - from lice, to rivers of stinking dead fish, to hordes of frogs - might have been describing Christine's back yard. My Fundamentalist Education is a brilliant, affectionate, child's-eye journey to Rosen's home, school and small town. during a girlhood lived as the Lord intended, among the tropical flora and fauna of Florida, its televangelists, irascible elderly, and itinerant preachers, Christine Rosen and her sister Cathy, uncover the not always godly but surely divine secrets of a Hallelujah-ya sisterhood. show lessTags
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This very readable book details the author's experiences attending a fundamental Christian school from kindergarten through ninth grade. Having attending a fundamentalist school myself, I found her somewhat ironic descriptions of the pledge to the Christian flag, the focus on Jesus in sporting events, creationist science lessons, and endless lectures on the potential harlotry of women spot on. The key to the book's success is how she avoids the bitterness felt by many ex-fundies. A great read if you have any experience with Christian fundamentalism or want to know exactly how kids in the fold are educated.
I heard Christine Rosen interviewed on NPR and was moved to read the book. Both were good
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- Original publication date
- 2005-12-26
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, History
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- 277.59630825092 — Religion History of Christianity Christianity in North America Southeastern U.S. Florida
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- BX7800 .F868 .R67 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Protestantism Other Protestant denominations
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