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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1. VerfasserIn: Wright, Jaime D. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Review
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Univ. Press 2010
In: Sociology of religion
Jahr: 2010, Band: 71, Heft: 4, Seiten: 493-494
Rezension von:Witnessing suburbia (Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : University of California Press, 2009) (Wright, Jaime D.)
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1759-8818
Enthält:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq063