{"product_id":"bju-and-me-queer-voices-from-the-worlds-most-christian-university-9780820361604","title":"BJU and Me: Queer Voices from the World's Most Christian University","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eBob Jones University is a Christian, fundamentalist, nondenominational liberal arts school in Greenville, South Carolina, founded in 1927 by Bob Jones Sr. It has a separatist culture and attracts students from fundamentalist communities. Despite its strict rules and conservative lifestyle, some queer students have enrolled at BJU. Lance Weldy has come to terms with his own involvement with the institution and has reached out to other queer students to help represent the range of queer experience in this restrictive atmosphere. BJU and Me: Queer Voices from the Worlds Most Christian University provides behind-the-scenes explanations from nineteen former BJU students who now identify as LGBT+. They write about their experiences, reflect on their relationships with a religious institution, and describe their vulnerability under a controlling regime. Some students hid their sexuality and graduated under the radar, while others transferred to other schools and faced reparative therapy elsewhere. Others endured mandatory counseling sessions on campus or faced incredible obstacles after being outed by or to the BJU administration. These students give voices to their queer experiences at BJU and share their unique stories, including encounters with internal and\/or external trauma and their paths to self-validation and recovery. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15 June 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBob Jones University, a Christian, fundamentalist, nondenominational liberal arts school in Greenville, South Carolina, was founded in 1927 by Christian evangelist Bob Jones Sr. who was against the secularization of higher education and the influence of religious liberalism in denominational colleges. For most of the twentieth century, BJU branded itself as the World's Most Unusual University due to its separatist culture. Many BJU students come from fundamentalist communities and are aware of BJU's strict rules and conservative lifestyle. So why would queer students enroll at BJU?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA former queer student of BJU himself, Lance Weldy, has come to terms with his own involvement with the institution and has reached out to other queer students to help represent the range of queer experience in this restrictive atmosphere. BJU and Me: Queer Voices from the World's Most Christian University provides behind-the-scenes explanations from nineteen former BJU students from the past few decades who now identify as LGBT+. They write about their experiences, reflect on their relationships with a religious institution, and describe their vulnerability under a controlling regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome students hid their sexuality and graduated under the radar; others transferred to other schools but faced reparative therapy elsewhere; some endured mandatory counseling sessions on campus; while still others faced incredible obstacles after being outed by or to the BJU administration. These students give voices to their queer experiences at BJU and share their unique stories, including encounters with internal and\/or external trauma and their paths to self-validation and recovery. Often their journeys led them out of fundamentalism and the BJU network entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 229 x 152 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780820361604\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Avery Wrenne,Curt Allison,Bill Ballantyne,Andrew Bolden,Peter Crane,David Diachenko,Blair Durkee,Christy Haussler,Elena Kelly","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44096891257082,"sku":"9780820361604","price":107.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1657288412953_book.jpg?v=1657605263","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/bju-and-me-queer-voices-from-the-worlds-most-christian-university-9780820361604","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}