Preaching to convert : evangelical outreach and performance activism in a secular age /

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'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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fletcher, John, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Evangelistic work.
Preaching > History > 20th century.
Religious awakening > Christianity.
Antinomianism.
Sermons.
Évangélisation.
Prédication > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Réveil religieux > Christianisme.
Antinomisme.
sermons.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Spiritual Growth.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Evangelism.
Preaching.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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