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



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Autore: Elisha Omri <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Moral ambition [[electronic resource] ] : mobilization and social outreach in evangelical megachurches / / Omri Elisha Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95054-2
1-283-27860-X
9786613278609
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813178503321
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Serie: Anthropology of Christianity ; ; 12.