The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education provides a resource for students and scholars interested in the most important issues, trends, and developments in the relationship between Christianity and education. It offers a historical understanding of these two intertwined subjects with a view to creating a context for the myriad issues that characterize -- and challenge-- the relationship between Christianity and education today.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Major Issues in Christian Education
• Preface
• The Movement Away from God in American Education
• The Two Biological Parent Family, Christianity, and Economic Prosperity
• The Christian Pastoral-Artisanal vs. Academic Industrial Models of Education in America
• Engaging Questions of Purpose: The Resurgence of Vocational Exploration and Its Integrative Potential for Higher Education
• Why Religion and Religious Freedom is Good for Society, Offenders, and Prisons
• The Integration of Faith Tradition and Teaching in Christian Higher Education
• A Christian Mentoring Program for Character Education of African American Teens and Young Adults from Detroit
• Character Education Traced Throughout American History
• Publicly Funded Charter Schools with Religious Ties
• Christianity and Education Around the Globe
• Preface
• Faith-based Schooling in a Pluralistic Democracy
• The Teaching of the Holocaust in American Evangelical Christian Schools
• Learned Piety in a Place of Freedom: A Brief History of Liberal Education in Europe, 1200–2000
• Religious Liberty and Educational Pluralism: Abraham Kuyper's Principled Advocacy of School Choice
• Christianity and Education: A Brazilian Perspective
• Latinx Parental Expectations in the Home: Educación and the Assets of Religiosity, Family, and Community
• Church-based and Community-centered Higher Educationw: Case Study of an Alternative Strategy for Delivering Faith-based General Education to the Poor Around the World
• “Small Things with Great Love”: Apostle Peter's Wisdom for Christian Educators Around the World
• Humanity at a Crossroads in Determining the Relationship Between Christianity and Education
• Preface
• The Supreme Court, 1st Amendment Religion Clauses, and Education: An Overview
• Using the Christian Paradigm of Living and Learning to Rethink the Extravert Ideal
• The Dog that Didn't Bark: Enrollment, Student Demographic, and Capacity Trends in Christian Schools after the Introduction of Private School Choice
• School Choice, Worldview, and Secularism's Blindness
• Education in a Catholic Key
• Minority Male Attainment: Cultivating Spiritual, Social, and Emotional Development
• Defining our Terms: Why the Vision for the Pluralistic University Depends upon a Clear and Rigorous Understanding of Pluralism
• Christianity and Higher Education: Empirical Studies on the Perceptions of Intellectual Diversity at Elite Universities in the United States
• Religion, Adolescent Wellbeing, and Educational Outcomes