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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823038203321

Autore

Turner John G

Titolo

Bill Bright & Campus Crusade for Christ [[electronic resource] ] : the renewal of evangelicalism in postwar America / / John G. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008

ISBN

1-4696-0475-2

0-8078-8910-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Disciplina

267/.61

Soggetti

Evangelicalism - United States - History

United States Religious life and customs

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 (p. [263]-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

God may choose a country boy -- Campus ministry at America's "Trojan horse" -- Sibling rivalries -- The conservative impulses of the early 1960s -- The Jesus revolution from Berkeley to Dallas -- The evangelical bicentennial -- America and the world for Jesus -- Kingdoms at war.

Sommario/riassunto

Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than 500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism and adaptation to mainstream American culture. Despite the importance of these ""parachurch"" organizations, says John Turner, historians have largely ignored them. Turner offers an accessible and colorful history of Campus Crusade and its founder, Bill Bright, whose marketing and fund-raising