Download PDF: Estey, Evangelical Faith At Work Abstract Protestant Christian evangelical practice and theology provides resources for resistance to labor exploitation. Black evangelical union members in Moncure, North Carolina demonstrate through a nine month strike against their plywood plant how
Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America
Download PDF: RV King Sensational Devotion By Jill Stevenson Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 328 pages. $50.00. Reading Jill Stevenson’s rich descriptions of evangelical piety and performance in Sensational Devotion is not unlike having dinner for the first time with the
The Juvenilization of American Christianity
Download PDF: Smith, Juvenilization By Thomas Bergler Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012. 291 pages. $25.00. In early January 2013, sixty thousand young people ages 18–25 attended “Passion,” a four-day conference in Atlanta, GA full of concerts, speakers, and local charity drives.
Doing Religious Studies Dialogically
Download PDF: Bielo, Doing Religious Studies Dialogically * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. As a die-hard ethnographer, I could not be more sympathetic with the kind of religious studies Robert Orsi articulates. The