Christian Punk - Identity and Performance

Christian punk is a surprisingly successful musical subculture and a fascinating expression of American evangelicalism. Situating Christian punk within the modern history of Christianity and the rapidly changing culture of spirituality and secularity, this book illustrates how Christian punk continues punk''s autonomous and oppositional creative practices, but from within a typically traditional evangelical morality. Analyzing straight edge Christian abstinence and punk-friendly churches, this book also focuses on gender performance within a subculture dominated by young men in a time of contested gender roles and ideologies. Critically-minded and rich in ethnographic data and insider perspectives, will engage scholars of contemporary evangelicalism, religion and popular music, and punk and all its related subcultures.>

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• Authors: Ibrahim Abraham, Ibrahim (Australian National University Abraham, ABRAHAM IBRAHIM
• Assisted by: Ibrahim Abraham (Editor), Ibrahim (Australian National University Abraham (Editor), Christopher Partridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781350094796
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09479-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music; Bloomsbury Studies in Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Punk, Sociology, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, Popular Music, Punk, New Wave & Indie, Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches, Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches