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Emerging Evangelicals

Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity

by James Bielo

  • Paperback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Combined Academic Publishers
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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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. He combines ethnographic analysis with discussions of the movement's history, discursive contours, defining practices, cultural logics, and contentious interactions with conservative Evangelical critics to rethink the boundaries of "Evangelical" as a category.Ultimately, Bielo makes a novel contribution to our understanding of the important changes at work among American Protestants, and illuminates how Emerging Evangelicals interact with the cultural conditions of modernity, late modernity, and visions of "postmodern" Christianity. James S. Bielo is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miami University in Oxford, OH. He is the author of Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study (NYU Press) and editor of The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Biblicism.
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The Social Life of ScripturesEmerging Evangelicals

  • Author

    James Bielo

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Combined Academic Publishers

  • Published

    October 2011

  • Weight

    355g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780814789551

  • ISBN-10

    0814789552

  • Eden Code

    3979468

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