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Author Fletcher, John, 1975-

Title Preaching to convert : evangelical outreach and performance activism in a secular age / John Fletcher
Published Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (413 pages)
Contents Introduction: Tackling You to Change the World; 1. Performance Activism, Progressive Oversights, and Deep Differences; 2. Positioning Secular Age Evangelicalism; 3. Face to Face, Door to Door: Personal Evangelism and the Scandal of Salvation; 4. Apologies and Apologetics: Meta-Kerygmatic Evangelism; 5. Hell and Judgement: Houses of Distinction; 6. Prepare to Believe: Performing the Evangelical Worldview at the Creation Museum; 7. Staging Church, Marketing the Divine; 8. Change Is Possible: Exodus and the Opposite of Homosexuality
Conclusion: American Grace and Evangelical True BelieversNotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 'Preaching to Convert' offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of US evangelicals. Author John Fletcher frames these activities, from door-to-door proselytising to the spirited sermons of superstar televangelists, as examples of activist performance, broadly defined here as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 03, 2014)
Subject Evangelistic work.
Preaching -- History -- 20th century.
Religious awakening -- Christianity.
Antinomianism.
Sermons.
sermons.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Spiritual Growth.
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Evangelism.
Antinomianism
Evangelistic work
Preaching
Religious awakening -- Christianity
Sermons
Genre/Form Electronic books
sermons.
Sermons
History
Sermons.
Sermons.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780472029877
0472029878
1306357853
9781306357852