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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790987303321

Autore

Fletcher John

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-472-02987-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Disciplina

269/.2

Soggetti

Preaching

Evangelistic work

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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 Believers""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""