03317nam 2200577 a 450 991080617800332120200520144314.00-8147-2323-310.18574/9780814723234(CKB)2550000000047442(EBL)865396(OCoLC)754841345(SSID)ssj0000606331(PQKBManifestationID)11354691(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606331(PQKBWorkID)10580509(PQKB)11609011(StDuBDS)EDZ0001325904(MiAaPQ)EBC865396(MdBmJHUP)muse4873(DE-B1597)548502(DE-B1597)9780814723234(EXLCZ)99255000000004744220110415d2011 uy 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrEmerging evangelicals faith, modernity, and the desire for authenticity /James S. BieloNew York New York University Pressc20111 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-8955-2 0-8147-8954-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : conceptualizing emerging evangelicalism -- Stories of deconversion -- Ironies of faith -- Ancient-future I : experiencing God -- Ancient-future II : everyday monastics -- Missional I : everyday missionaries -- Missional II : kingdom theologies -- Church planting I : a new work -- Church planting II : sense of place -- Conclusion : dialogic evangelicalism.The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were disenchanted with America’s conservative Evangelical sub-culture. It is a response to the increasing divide between conservative Evangelicals and concerned critics who strongly oppose what they consider overly slick, corporate, and consumerist versions of faith. A core feature of their response is a challenge to traditional congregational models, often focusing on new church plants and creating networks of related house churches. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, James S. Bielo explores the impact of the Emerging Church movement on American Evangelicals. He combines ethnographic analysis with discussions of the movement’s history, discursive contours, defining practices, cultural logics, and contentious interactions with conservative Evangelical critics to rethink the boundaries of “Evangelical” as a category. Ultimately, Bielo makes a novel contribution to our understanding of the important changes at work among American Protestants, and illuminates how Emerging Evangelicals interact with the cultural conditions of modernity, late modernity, and visions of “postmodern” Christianity.EvangelicalismUnited StatesEmerging church movementUnited StatesEvangelicalismEmerging church movement277.3/083Bielo James S1047825MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806178003321Emerging Evangelicals4050503UNINA