Michael F. Sparks

Paradise Joe's a Cultural Sociology of a Christian College Community:: An Exploration Into the Meaning and Significance of American Evangelicalism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookbaby
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9781098378059
• ISBN-10: 1098378059
• Artikelnr.: 62509692

Autorenporträt

Michael F. Sparks was a Searle Fellow at the University of Chicago, from which he received a phd. in sociology. Among his many mentors: Guenther Roth (at the University of Washington) and Edward Shils, Stephen Toulmin, and Marshall Sahlins (largely through multi-disciplinary courses from the Committee on Social Thought) at Chicago. He spent years working at all levels of primary and secondary education, creat-ing and contracting out his own version of Marie Clay's New Zealand Reading Recovery literacy program, co-creating a more diverse New Honor's Program for a Seattle middle school, and teaching college-level courses ("The Trial of Socrates," "Religion, Culture, & Society," and "Lincoln & The Civil War,") for senior citizens at the Lifetime Learning Center, classes attended by several retired local university professors, one of whom commented upon the "unusually high level" of dis-course and instruction. The author competes in (and has won) local golf tournaments and performs covers, standards, and originals in a jazz/blues guitar duo.