Jacobs, in The Year of Living Biblically. In both conception and execution, Roose's narrative parallels that of his mentor, A.
Nevertheless, Roose largely gets beyond the stereotypes and humanizes even those whose views he finds "reprehensible." And in the process, Roose gets a good dose of humanizing himself.
This isn't to say that some of the worst stereotypes of evangelicalism, fundamentalism, the Bible Belt, and Christian higher education aren't reinforced by Roose's experience. It's not the book it was supposed to be because, as it turns out, Liberty University wasn't what it was supposed to be. And it's not the book I anticipated when I first heard rumors among students at Liberty University, where I teach, that a young man from Brown University had come here and spent a semester undercover in order to write an exposé on command central for one side in America's culture wars.
It's certainly not the book he pitched to his publisher as a left hook in the ongoing fisticuffs between secularists and believers. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University isn't the book its author, Kevin Roose, thought it would be.
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