Inside Evangelicalism - The Culture of Conservative White Christianity

In this book, Mark Ward Sr. combines ethnographic and autoethnographic research to identify and analyze white evangelicals' distinctive speech code and to illumine the complexities of conservative white evangelical culture with an insider's critical yet balanced eye.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Yes, That's the Book for Me!
Chapter 2: I Was Saved at an Early Age
Chapter 3: Ladies, Bring Your Best Dishes
Chapter 4: I Can't Half-Preach!
Chapter 5: God's Man
Chapter 6: Knowledge Puffs Up
Chapter 7: Electronic Church Redux
Chapter 8: We Need to Pray for Our Country
Chapter 9: The Christian Worldview
Chapter 10: Professor in the Pew
Chapter 11: Worship is Like a Drug
Chapter 12: Who Am I?

About the author

Mark Ward Sr. is Professor of Communication at the University of Houston - Victoria and serves on the Executive Council of the Religious Communication Association (RCA) and the Editorial Board of The Journal of Communication and Religion. His books include Deadly Documents: Organizational Discourse, Technical Communication, and the Holocaust (2014); Organizational Communication: Theory, Research, and Practice (2015); The Electronic Church in the Digital Age: Cultural Impacts of Evangelical Mass Media, Vol. 1 & 2 (2016); The Lord's Radio: Gospel Music Broadcasting and the Making of Evangelical Culture, 1920-1960 (2017), God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication (2022), and Inside Evangelicalism: The Culture of Conservative White Christianity (Lexington Books, 2025).

Product details

• Authors: Mark Ward, Mark Ward Sr, Mark Ward, Mark Ward Ward Sr, Mark Ward Sr.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2025
• EAN: 9781666946437
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-643-7
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History, History of Religion, Communication Studies, Religion and Politics, Social groups: religious groups and communities