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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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This 2000 book analyses the revival of charismatic Protestant Christianity as an example of globalization. Simon Coleman shows that, along with many social movements, these religious conservatives are negotiating their own interpretations of global and postmodern processes. They are constructing an evangelical arena of action and meaning within the liminal, chaotic space of the global. The book examines globalization not only as a social process, but also as an embodied practice involving forms of language and ritualized movement. Charismatic Christianity is presented through its material culture - art, architecture and consumer products - as well as its rhetoric and theology. The book provides an account of the incorporation of electronic media such as television, videos and the Internet into Christian worship. Issues relating to the conduct of fieldwork in contexts of globalization are raised in an account which is also a major ethnography of a Faith ministry.
Christianity and culture --- -Globalization --- -Faith movement (Hagin) --- -Pentecostalism --- -289.9*8 --- 289.9*8 Pinksterbeweging. Pentecostals --- Pinksterbeweging. Pentecostals --- Charismatic Movement --- Charismatic Renewal Movement --- Latter Rain movement --- Neo-Pentecostalism --- Pentecostal movement --- Christianity --- Gifts, Spiritual --- Glossolalia --- Faith formula theology (Hagin) --- Positive confession (Hagin) --- Prosperity gospel (Hagin) --- Prosperity teaching (Hagin) --- Word-faith movement (Hagin) --- Word movement (Hagin) --- Word of faith movement (Hagin) --- Pentecostalism --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- Religious aspects --- -Christianity --- -History. --- History --- -Pinksterbeweging. Pentecostals --- Uppsala (Sweden) --- -Church history --- -Christianity and culture --- -Pentecostalism. --- Mouvement charismatique --- Pentecostalism. --- Faith movement (Hagin) --- Globalization --- 289.9*8 --- Prosperity theology (Hagin) --- Upsala (Sweden) --- Uppsala kommun (Sweden) --- Church history --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Charismatic Protestant Christianity --- globalisation --- social movements --- religious conservatism --- postmodernity --- Evangelicalism --- social processes --- rhetoric --- theology --- Christian worship --- faith ministry
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