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Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity

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Description for Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity Paperback. First examination of the Emerging Church movement Num Pages: 256 pages, 19 b&w illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 380.

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. ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
379 g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814789551
SKU
V9780814789551
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99-50

About James Bielo
James Bielo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Miami University. He is author of numerous books, including Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place (Bloomsbury, 2021); Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park (NYU Press, 2018); Anthropology of Religion: The Basics (Routledge, 2015); Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity (NYU Press, 2011); and Words Upon the ... Read more

Reviews for Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity
Bielo offers an illuminating, cogently organized interpretation of Emerging Evangelicalism in America as well as a provocative model for linking subjectivity and structure through ethnographic data.
Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
Emerging Evangelicalsdemonstrates how understanding particular Christianities as traditions of cultural critique can clarify their fraught relations with 'worldliness' both within and without the church. Accessibly written ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity


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