The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 5-1-2015 Return to Holy Hill: Louisiana College, Academic Freedom, and The Southern Baptist Convention's Conservative Resurgence, 1995-2006 Joseph Learned Odenwald University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Educational Leadership Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Higher Education Commons, History of Religion Commons, and the Liberal Studies Commons Recommended Citation Odenwald, Joseph Learned, "Return to Holy Hill: Louisiana College, Academic Freedom, and The Southern Baptist Convention's Conservative Resurgence, 1995-2006" (2015). Dissertations. 53. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/53 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi RETURN TO HOLY HILL: LOUISIANA COLLEGE, ACADEMIC FREEDOM, AND THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION’S CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE, 1995-2006 by Joseph Learned Odenwald Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education May 2015 ABSTRACT RETURN TO HOLY HILL: LOUISIANA COLLEGE, ACADEMIC FREEDOM, AND THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION’S CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE, 1995-2006 by Joseph Learned Odenwald May 2015 This study examines a period in the history of Louisiana College in which the college’s sponsoring organization, the Louisiana Baptist Convention, a Southern Baptist affiliate, began to insist that professors at the college teach only in accordance with the official views of the Southern Baptist Convention.