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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.

Big churches. --- Church work. --- Missions. --- Church and social problems. --- Evangelicalism --- 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.

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In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the relief of social suffering, the interpretation of history, the construction and reconstruction of traditions, individual and social health, and bu

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