Preaching to Convert : Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age /
'Preaching to Convert' offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of US evangelicals. Author John Fletcher frames these activities, from door-to-door proselytising to the spirited sermons of superstar televangelists, as examples of activist performance, broadly defined...
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Ann Arbor [Michigan] :
The University of Michigan Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Tackling You to Change the World; 1. Performance Activism, Progressive Oversights, and Deep Differences; 2. Positioning Secular Age Evangelicalism; 3. Face to Face, Door to Door: Personal Evangelism and the Scandal of Salvation; 4. Apologies and Apologetics: Meta-Kerygmatic Evangelism; 5. Hell and Judgement: Houses of Distinction; 6. Prepare to Believe: Performing the Evangelical Worldview at the Creation Museum; 7. Staging Church, Marketing the Divine; 8. Change Is Possible: Exodus and the Opposite of Homosexuality.
- Conclusion: American Grace and Evangelical True BelieversNotes; Bibliography; Index.