Moral ambition [[electronic resource] ] : mobilization and social outreach in evangelical megachurches / / Omri Elisha

• Autore: Elisha Omri <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley [Calif.], : University of California Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 253.09768/09045
• Soggetto topico: Big churches; Church work; Missions; Church and social problems; Evangelicalism - Tennessee
• Soggetto non controllato: american christianity; american evangelical christians; anthropology and religion; christian ethnography; christianity and abortion; christianity and same sex marriage; christianity and social issues; conservative protestantism; divine destiny; evangelical christianity; evangelical christians; faith; megachurches; religion and secularism; religious anthropology; religious conservatism; religious studies; religious virtues; saints and sinners; sociology of religion; the christian right; us evangelicalism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Awaking sleeping giants -- A region in spite of itself -- The names of action -- The spiritual injuries of class -- Compassion accounts -- Taking the (inner) city for God -- Epilogue.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the grassroots of the Christian Right promote faith-based causes intended to improve the state of social welfare. The book shows how these ministries both help churchgoers embody religious virtues and create provocative new opportunities for evangelism on a public scale. Elisha challenges conventional views of U.S. evangelicalism as narrowly individualistic, elucidating instead the inherent contradictions that activists face in their efforts to reconcile religious conservatism with a renewed interest in compassion, poverty, racial justice, and urban revivalism.
• Altri titoli varianti: Mobilization and social outreach in evangelical megachurches
• Titolo autorizzato: Moral ambition
• ISBN: 0-520-95054-2; 1-283-27860-X; 9786613278609
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786707903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology of Christianity ; ; 12.