Klappentext

This book provides a critical interpretation of media engagement among American evangelicals today-in the age of tweets, smart phones, bloggers, 24-hour news, and an almost infinite number of TV channels. Deftly employing the methods of religious studies, media theory, and cultural studies, author Deborah Whitehead offers readers a series of richly textured case studies-on Tim Tebow and "tebowing," evangelical "mommy blogs," megachurch design, creation care websites, and evangelist Joel Osteen-in order to shed light on ongoing practices and debates among U.S. evangelicals today.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The Terms of Engagement. 2. Reading the Evangelical Body: "Tebowing" and Practices of Embodied Piety. 3. Confessions of a Christian Mom: Evangelical Mommy Bloggers and the Religion of Everyday Life. 4. "The Church That Doesn't Look Like a Church": the Aesthetics of Evangelical Megachurches. 5. The Book of Nature Meets the Good Book: "Creation Care" and the Evangelical Environmental Movement. 6. Ecce Homo: Joel Osteen, Media Superstardom, and the Limits of Engagement. 7. Conclusion: Authority and Authenticity in the New Evangelical Movement