Witnessing Suburbia - Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture

Zusatztext "Thoroughly researched and well written! this book should interest scholars of 20th-century Christianity and popular culture. . . . Highly recommended." Informationen zum Autor Eileen Luhr is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at California State University! Long Beach. Klappentext "Down at the local God-mall there's a whole lot of shaking going on, and Eileen Luhr explains why we should all take notice. This is a highly original, witty, at times mind-boggling exploration of the strange interfaces between youth culture and suburban evangelicalism." —Mike Davis, author of In Praise of Barbarians Zusammenfassung Presents a cultural analysis of the conservative shift in national politics that transformed the United States during the Reagan-Bush era. This work focuses on two fundamental aspects of this shift: the suburbanization of evangelicalism and the rise of Christian popular culture, especially popular music. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Home Improvement: Christian Cultural Criticism and the Defense of "Traditional" Authority 2. Rebel with a Cross: The Creation of a Christian Youth Culture 3. Metal Missionaries to the Nation: Christian Heavy Metal Music! 1984-1994 4. "An MTV Approach to Evangelism": The Cultural Politics of Suburban Revivalism Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eileen Luhr, Luhr Eileen
• Con la collaborazione di: Eileen Luhr (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.02.2009
• EAN: 9780520255968
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25596-8
• Pagine: 280
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; USA, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / United States / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Christianity, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity