Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture
In Witnessing Suburbia, historian Eileen Luhr makes an argument for what she calls the twin pillars of evangelical activism: “the suburbanization of evangelicalism and the ‘Christianization’ of popular culture” (5). The development of an evangelical youth culture takes place against a backdrop of a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 493-494 |
| Review of: | Witnessing suburbia (Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : University of California Press, 2009) (Wright, Jaime D.)
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| Summary: | In Witnessing Suburbia, historian Eileen Luhr makes an argument for what she calls the twin pillars of evangelical activism: “the suburbanization of evangelicalism and the ‘Christianization’ of popular culture” (5). The development of an evangelical youth culture takes place against a backdrop of a burgeoning suburbia—which accounted for nearly half of the total population of the United States by the 1990s. A major theme running through the book is how this evangelical youth culture paradoxically clings to a rebellious outsider status while also embracing the white, middle-class, gender norms of suburban America and evangelical Christianity., Luhr begins with an instructive illustration of the struggle of evangelicals with popular culture. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq063 |