Evangelical Imagination – How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo), one of today's leading evangelical writers and commentators, is the award-winning author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. She is a frequent speaker, a monthly columnist at Religion News Service, and has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Vox. She is a research fellow with Comment, a founding member of the Pelican Project, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a senior fellow at the International Alliance for Christian Education. Prior lives with her husband in central Virginia.

• ContentsIntroduction: Victorians, Evangelicals, and the Invitation1. Made in His ImageImagination, Imaginaries, and Evangelicalisms2. AwakeningMumford, MLK, Hurston, Hughes, and Other Poets3. ConversionLanguage, Dr. Pepper, and Ebenezer Scrooge4. TestimonyGrace Abounding and "Evangelically Speaking"5. ImprovementThe Puritan Work Ethic, Paradise Lost, and the Price of Progress6. SentimentalitySweet Jesus, Uncle Tom, and Public Urination7. MaterialityJesus in the Window, the Virgin Mary on Grilled Cheese, Gingerbread Houses, and the Sacramentality of Church Space8. DomesticityAngels and Castles and Prostitutes, Oh My!9. Empire"The White Man's Burden," His Man Friday, the Jesus Nobody Knows, and What Johnny Cash Really Knew10. ReformationPardon Me, Reckoning or Rip Van Winkle?11. RaptureOr How a Thief Came in the Night but Left My Chick Tracts Behind