Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social PowerOxford University Press, 14 mars 2002 - 176 sidor In the United States, there are hundreds of thousands of Protestant churches whose members habitually carry their Bibles with them. These churches--often referred to as "evangelical" or "fundamentalist"--play a crucial role in shaping American society. In this book, David Watt draws on years of fieldwork to present an elegant reinterpretation of the way that conservative Protestants influence American politics and culture. At the heart of the book is a sympathetic, but far from uncritical, analysis of those forms of social power that are assumed to be natural among Bible-carrying Christians. While outsiders often presuppose that evangelical Christians take for granted the authority of certain institutions (among them the American state, corporations, ministers, men, and heterosexuals), Watt argues that the reality is far more complex. This is a concise and lively book that sheds new light on the way that Bible-carrying Christians influence the way that people in America think--and avoid thinking--about social power. |
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| 3 | |
Philadelphia | 11 |
Social Power | 23 |
Oak Grove Church | 35 |
The Philadelphia Mennonnite Fellowship | 55 |
The Philadelphia | 85 |
Conclusion | 115 |
The Interviews | 119 |
Money Matters | 121 |
Tables | 129 |
Notes | 131 |
Bibliography | 147 |
Index | 161 |
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Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power David Harrington Watt Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2002 |
Bible-carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power David Harrington Watt Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2002 |
Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power David Harrington Watt Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2002 |
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Sida 141 - All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age...
Sida 118 - Well, it's not normal. It's like one of them gory stories, it's somei.hing that people have quit doing— like boiling in oil or being a saint or walling up cats. There's no reason for it. People have quit doing it.
Sida 158 - Uneasy in Zion: Evangelicals in Postmodern Society." In Evangelicalism and Modern America, ed. George M. Marsden. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1984.
Sida 67 - ... 4.4 A Message of Hope At the very heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ and at the very centre of all true prophecy is a message of hope. Nothing could be more relevant and more necessary at this moment of crisis in South Africa than the Christian message of hope. Jesus has taught us to speak of this hope as the coming of God's kingdom. We believe that God is at work in our world turning hopeless and evil situations to good so that his "Kingdom may come" and his "Will may be done on earth as it...
Sida 67 - all tears will be wiped away" (Rev 7: 17; 21: 4) and "the lamb will lie down with the lion
Sida 148 - In Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age, ed. Steven Kepnes. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Sida 134 - ... Liberty Baptist Church or watch the 700 Club. But the movements that these institutions represent and promote provide the best hope for American democracy and peace, capitalist prosperity and progress. Ironically enough, it is the so-called reactionaries who offer the best prospects for continued American leadership in the world economy in the new era of accelerating technological change. Just as the nuclear families of Western Europe unleashed the energies of the industrial revolution, so the...
Sida 44 - ... essential part of a holy life. It would be well, however, to make this more plain than many seem to make it in these days. (2) I ask, in the second place, whether it is wise to make so little as some appear to do, comparatively, of the many practical exhortations to holiness in daily life which are to be found in the Sermon on the Mount, and in the latter part of most of St. Paul's epistles? Is it according to the proportion of God's Word? I doubt it. That a life of daily self-consecration and...
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