Moral Ambition
Omri Elisha
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the grassroots of the Christian Right promote faith-based causes intended to improve the state of social welfare. The book shows how these ministries both help churchgoers embody religious virtues and create provocative new opportunities for evangelism on a public scale. Elisha challenges conventional views of U.S. evangelicalism as narrowly individualistic, elucidating instead the inherent contradictions that activists face in their efforts to reconcile religious conservatism with a renewed interest in compassion, poverty, racial justice, and urban revivalism.
Kundenbewertungen
divine destiny, us evangelicalism, sociology of religion, american christianity, religious conservatism, christian ethnography, evangelical christians, american evangelical christians, christianity and abortion, religious anthropology, megachurches, evangelical christianity, saints and sinners, the christian right, religious studies, christianity and same sex marriage, conservative protestantism, faith, religious virtues, anthropology and religion, religion and secularism, christianity and social issues