03143nam 2200505 450 991048057970332120210902032235.00-271-08627-00-271-08629-710.1515/9780271086293(CKB)4100000010122756(MiAaPQ)EBC6224813(DE-B1597)584214(DE-B1597)9780271086293(EXLCZ)99410000001012275620200929d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReligion around Bono evangelical enchantment and neoliberal capitalism /Chad E. SealesUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :The Pennsylvania State University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (x, 189 pages)Religion around ;Volume 70-271-08489-8 Includes bibliographical references ( pages 169-183) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Evangelicalism Around --2. Around Bono --3. Neoliberalism Around --4. Around Africa --5. Love and Debt --Notes --Bibliography --IndexFor many, U2’s Bono is an icon of both evangelical spirituality and secular moral activism. In this book, Chad E. Seales examines the religious and spiritual culture that has built up around the rock star over the course of his career and considers how Bono engages with that religion in his music and in his activism. Looking at Bono and his work within a wider critique of white American evangelicalism, Seales traces Bono’s career, from his background in religious groups in the 1970s to his rise to stardom in the 1980s and his relationship with political and economic figures, such as Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Clinton, and Jesse Helms. In doing so, Seales shows us a different Bono, one who uses the spiritual meaning of church tradition to advocate for the promise that free markets and for-profits will bring justice and freedom to the world’s poor. Engaging with scholarship in popular culture, music, religious studies, race, and economic development, Seales makes the compelling case that neoliberal capitalism is a religion and that Bono is its best-known celebrity revivalist. Engagingly written and bitingly critical, Religion Around Bono promises to transform our understanding of the rock star’s career and advocacy. Those interested in the intersection of rock music, religion, and activism will find Seales’s study provocative and enlightening.Religion around ;Volume 7.EvangelicalismNeoliberalismReligious aspectsChristianityElectronic books.Evangelicalism.NeoliberalismReligious aspectsChristianity.782.42166092Seales Chad E.1047641MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910480579703321Religion around Bono2475338UNINA