Redemptorama
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Redemptorama
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Author : Carol Flake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Redemptorama written by Carol Flake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Shaking The World For Jesus
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Author : Heather Hendershot
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15
Shaking The World For Jesus written by Heather Hendershot and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with Social Science categories.
In 1999, the Reverend Jerry Falwell outed Tinky-Winky, the purple character from TV's Teletubbies. Events such as this reinforced in many quarters the common idea that evangelicals are reactionary, out of touch, and just plain paranoid. But reducing evangelicals to such caricatures does not help us understand their true spiritual and political agendas and the means they use to advance them. Shaking the World for Jesus moves beyond sensationalism to consider how the evangelical movement has effectively targeted Americans—as both converts and consumers—since the 1970s. Thousands of products promoting the Christian faith are sold to millions of consumers each year through the Web, mail order catalogs, and even national chains such as Kmart and Wal-Mart. Heather Hendershot explores in this book the vast industry of film, video, magazines, and kitsch that evangelicals use to spread their message. Focusing on the center of conservative evangelical culture—the white, middle-class Americans who can afford to buy "Christian lifestyle" products—she examines the industrial history of evangelist media, the curious subtleties of the products themselves, and their success in the religious and secular marketplace. To garner a wider audience, Hendershot argues, evangelicals have had to carefully temper their message. But in so doing, they have painted themselves into a corner. In the postwar years, evangelical media wore the message of salvation on its sleeve, but as the evangelical media industry has grown, many of its most popular products have been those with heavily diluted Christian messages. In the eyes of many followers, the evangelicals who purvey such products are sellouts—hucksters more interested in making money than spreading the word of God. Working to understand evangelicalism rather than pass judgment on it, Shaking the World for Jesus offers a penetrating glimpse into a thriving religious phenomenon.
Introduction To Evangelism
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Author : Alvin L. Reid
language : en
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date : 1998
Introduction To Evangelism written by Alvin L. Reid and has been published by B&H Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Evangelistic work categories.
In this important book, Alvin Reid traces the essence of evangelism -- its history and character -- teaching Christians how to preach the Gospel effectively.
The Consumer Church
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Author : Bruce Leon Shelley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Consumer Church written by Bruce Leon Shelley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Religion categories.
Strategies such as guilt-free sermons and surfing for Jesus are becoming more common in evangelical churches. The authors illustrate the difficulty of balancing faithfulness and effectiveness and offer their own conclusions on how to carry out an ambidextrous ministry that is both loyal to the Bible and engaging to contemporary men and women.
Do Real Men Pray
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Author : Charles H. Lippy
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2005
Do Real Men Pray written by Charles H. Lippy and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
White male spirituality and the Christian man -- The dutiful patriarch -- The gentleman entrepreneur -- The courageous adventurer -- The efficient businessman -- The positive thinker -- The faithful leader -- Male spirituality in white Protestant America.
Evangelicalism
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Author : Richard Kyle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-20
Evangelicalism written by Richard Kyle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-20 with Religion categories.
Most forms of religion are best understood in the con- text of their relationship with the surrounding culture. This may be particularly true in the United States. Certainly immigrant Catholicism became Americanized; mainstream Protestantism accommodated itself to the modern world; and Reform Judaism is at home in American society. In Evangelicalism, Richard Kyle explores paradoxical adjustments and transformations in the relationship between conservative Protestant Evangelicalism and contemporary American culture. Evangelicals have resisted many aspects of the modern world, but Kyle focuses on what he considers their romance with popular culture. Kyle sees this as an Americanized Christianity rather than a Christian America, but the two are so intertwined that it is difficult to discern the difference between them. Instead, in what has become a vicious self-serving cycle, Evangelicals have baptized and sanctified secular culture in order to be considered culturally relevant, thus increasing their numbers and success within abundantly populous and populist-driven American society. In doing so, Evangelicalism has become a middle-class movement, one that dominates America's culture, and unabashedly populist. Many Evangelicals view America as God's chosen nation, thus sanctifying American culture, consumerism, and middle-class values. Kyle believes Evangelicals have served themselves well in consciously and deliberately adjusting their faith to popular culture. Yet he also thinks Evangelicals may have compromised themselves and their future in the process, so heavily borrowing from the popular culture that in many respects the Evangelical subculture has become secularism with a light gilding of Christianity. If so, he asks, can Evangelicalism survive its own popularity and reaffirm its religious origins, or will it assimilate and be absorbed into what was once known as the Great American Melting Pot of religions and cultures? Will the Gospel of the American dream ultimately engulf and destroy the Gospel of Evangelical success in America? This thoughtful and thought-provoking volume will interest anyone concerned with the modern-day success of the Evangelical movement in America and the aspirations and fate of its faithful.
The Columbia Documentary History Of Religion In America Since 1945
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Author : Paul Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007-04-23
The Columbia Documentary History Of Religion In America Since 1945 written by Paul Harvey and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-23 with History categories.
This unique documentary history brings together manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics, memoirs, and poems reflecting the vitality, diversity, and changing nature of religious belief and practice in America since 1945. Covering both the center and the margins of American religious life, these documents reflect the role of religion and theology in the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements as well as in the conservative responses to these. Issues regarding religion and contemporary American culture are explored in documents about the rise of the evangelical movement and the religious right; the impact of "new" (post-1965) immigrant communities on the religious landscape; the popularity of alternative, New Age, and non-Western beliefs; and the relationship between religion and popular culture. The editors conclude with selections exploring major themes of American religious life at the millennium as well as excerpts that speculate on the future of religion in the United States.
Fundamentalism And Gender
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Author : John Stratton Hawley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
Fundamentalism And Gender written by John Stratton Hawley and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fundamentalism categories.
The essays in this book examine the connection between fundamentalism and gender.
Babel Church
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Author : Li Ma
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-03-16
Babel Church written by Li Ma and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Religion categories.
Assisted by a diverse mass media industry, American evangelicalism has been long plagued by consumerism, entrepreneurism, and social engineering. Churches and movements that carry the name of Christ have become projects of ambition and scandals in the public eye. Without fixing its dysfunctions, these ministry models have expanded to other parts of the world, reaping similar fruits of corruption, prejudice, and abuses. The alarm call of #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements since 2017 made it more urgent for the global body of Christ to inspect its pathological patterns. What kind of response does the #MeToo movement require of our public theology and leadership ethics? Sociologist Li Ma invites us to re-engage with biblical exegesis while being attentive to new mandates of God revealed from #MeToo. A creative Ellulian integration of sociological analysis and theology, Babel Church incisively reveals why American evangelicalism and its global projects have succumbed to the temptations of worldly power at the expense of vulnerable members in the body of Christ.
Selling God
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Author : Robert Laurence Moore
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
Selling God written by Robert Laurence Moore and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Religion categories.
In a sweeping colourful history that spans over two centuries of American culture, Moore examines the role of religion in America as it appropriated (and was appropriated by) commercial culture. He reveals the centrality of religion, and the marketplace, in American popular culture.