The New Evangelical Social Engagement

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvBrian Steensland,Brian Steensland,Philip Goff

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In recent years evangelical Christians have been increasingly turning their attention toward issues such as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. Such engagement marks both a return to historic evangelical social action and a pronounced expansion of the social agenda advanced by the Religious Right in the past few decades. For outsiders to evangelical culture, this trend complicates simplistic stereotypes. For insiders, it brings contention over what "true" evangelicalism means today.Beginning with an introduction that broadly outlines this 'new evangelicalism', the editors identify its key elements, trace its historical lineage, account for the recent changes taking place within evangelicalism, and highlight the implications of these changes for politics, civic engagement, and American religion. The essays that follow bring together an impressive interdisciplinary team of scholars to map this new religious terrain and spell out its significance in what is sure to become an essential text for understanding trends in contemporary evangelicalism.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-01-09
Mått231 x 155 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199329540

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Philip Goff is director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Author or editor of over thirty books and journal volumes, he writes about the role of religion in American history, particularly its relationship to other aspects of American culture.Brian Steensland is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. His book, The Failed Welfare Revolution, received the Mary Douglas Prize and the Political Sociology Book Award. His academic articles have appeared in leading sociology journals, such as the American Journal of Sociology and Social Forces.

Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction: The New Evangelical Social Engagement ; Brian Steensland and Philip Goff ; Part One: Recent Evangelical Movements and Trends ; Chapter One - "FORMED": Emerging Evangelicals Navigate Two Transformations ; James S. Bielo ; Chapter Two - Whose Social Justice? Which Evangelicalism? Social Engagement in a Campus Ministry ; John Schmalzbauer ; Chapter Three - All Catholics Now? Spectres of Catholicism in Evangelical Social Engagement ; Omri Elisha ; Chapter Four - The New Monasticism ; Will Samson ; Chapter Five - "We Need a Revival": Young Evangelical Women Redefine Activism in New York City ; Adriane Bilous ; Chapter Six - New and Old Evangelical Public Engagement: A View from the Polls ; John C. Green ; Part Two: Areas of Evangelical Social Engagement ; Chapter Seven - Green Evangelicals ; Laurel Kearns ; Chapter Eight - The Rise of the Diversity Expert: How American Evangelicals Simultaneously Accentuate and Ignore Race ; Gerardo Marti and Michael O. Emerson ; Chapter Nine - Pro-Lifers of the Left: Progressive Evangelicals' Campaign Against Abortion ; Daniel K. Williams ; Chapter Ten - Global Reflex: International Evangelicals, Human Rights, and the New Shape of American Social Engagement ; David R. Swartz ; Chapter Eleven - Global Poverty and Evangelical Action ; Amy Reynolds and Stephen Offutt ; Part Three: Reflections on Evangelical Social Engagement ; Chapter Twelve - What's New about the New Evangelical Social Engagement? ; Joel Carpenter ; Chapter Thirteen - Evangelicals of the 1970s and 2010s: What's the Same, What's Different, and What's Urgent ; R. Stephen Warner ; Chapter Fourteen - We Need a New Reformation ; Glen Harold Stassen ; Index

The strengths of this book are many. It offers an important corrective to the widely held view of evangelical activism that is predominately political and right-wing....All the substantive chapters are strong contributions. They cover a broad range of topics, are informative, and show excellent depth of analysis. The book is well written and coherent....I recommend this book highly. It is necessary reading for those interested in American religion. I thank the authors for this important contribution.