Biblical Porn

Informationen zum Autor Jessica Johnson is a contemporary witch and tarot reader who has been on the pagan path for about 20 years. She is a mom to 3 active kids and also runs a tarot reading business, Stellar Tarot. Jessica loves to garden, read, write, paint and knit. Her YouTube channel, StellarRainDancer, is dedicated to talking about tarot, witchcraft, shamanism and pagan parenting. Jessica has been a Daughter of The Morrigan for a few years now-and is committed to bringing a modern, fresh take to the pagan community on working with traditionally darker goddesses. Klappentext Between 1996 and 2014! Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13!000 attendees. When it closed! the church was beset by scandal! with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse! emotional manipulation! and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnson shows how they were affectively recruited into sexualized and militarized dynamics of power through the mobilization of what she calls "biblical porn"-the affective labor of communicating! promoting! and embodying Driscoll's teaching on biblical masculinity! femininity! and sexuality! which simultaneously worked as a marketing strategy! social imaginary! and biopolitical instrument. Johnson theorizes religious conviction as a social process through which Mars Hill's congregants circulated and amplified feelings of hope! joy! shame! and paranoia as affective value that the church capitalized on to grow at all costs. Zusammenfassung Jessica Johnson draws on a decade of fieldwork at Pastor Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church in Seattle to show how congregants became entangled in a process of religious conviction through which they embodied Driscoll's teaching on gender and sexuality in ways that supported the church's growth. ...

Klappentext

Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnson shows how they were affectively recruited into sexualized and militarized dynamics of power through the mobilization of what she calls "biblical porn"-the affective labor of communicating, promoting, and embodying Driscoll's teaching on biblical masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, which simultaneously worked as a marketing strategy, social imaginary, and biopolitical instrument. Johnson theorizes religious conviction as a social process through which Mars Hill's congregants circulated and amplified feelings of hope, joy, shame, and paranoia as affective value that the church capitalized on to grow at all costs.

Zusammenfassung
Jessica Johnson draws on a decade of fieldwork at Pastor Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church in Seattle to show how congregants became entangled in a process of religious conviction through which they embodied Driscoll's teaching on gender and sexuality in ways that supported the church's growth.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1

1. Arousing Empire 44
2. Under Conviction 76
3. Porn Again Christian? 111
4. The Porn Path 136
5. Campaigning for Empire 163
   Conclusion. Godly Sorrow, Worldly Sorrow 185
   Notes 195
   Bibliography 229
   Index 235