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The evangelical imagination : how stories, images, and metaphors created a culture in crisis / Karen Swallow Prior.
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- ISBN: 9781587435751
- ISBN: 1587435756
- Physical Description: 289 pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, color ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary, etc.: | "An acclaimed author shows that understanding evangelicalism means understanding not only the faith commitments at the movement's core but also the images, metaphors, assumptions, and stories that cultivate evangelical culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Evangelicalism > United States. Christianity and culture > United States. |
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The Evangelical Imagination : How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
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Table of Contents
The Evangelical Imagination : How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction: Victorians, Evangelicals, and the Invitation | 1 | |
| 1 | Made in his Image | |
| Imagination, Imaginaries, and Evangelicalisms | 7 | |
| 2 | Awakening | |
| Mumford, MLK, Hurston, Hughes, and Other Poets | 33 | |
| 5 | Conversion | |
| Language, Dr. Pepper, and Ebenezer Scrooge | 53 | |
| 4 | Testimony | |
| Grace Abounding and "Evangelically Speaking" | 77 | |
| 5 | Improvement | |
| The Puritan Work Ethic, Paradise Lost, and the Price of Progress | 101 | |
| 6 | Sentimentality | |
| Uncle Tom, Sweet Jesus, and Public Urination | 125 | |
| 7 | Materiality | |
| Jesus in the Window, the Virgin Mary on Grilled Cheese, Gingerbread Houses, and the Sacramentality of Church Space | 151 | |
| 8 | Domesticity | |
| Angels and Castles and Prostitutes, Oh My! | 171 | |
| 9 | Empire | |
| "The White Man's Burden" his Man Friday, the Jesus Nobody Knows, and What Johnny Cash Really Knew | 195 | |
| 10 | Reformation | |
| Pardon Me, Reckoning or Rip Van Winkle? | 223 | |
| 11 | Rapture | |
| Or How a Thief Came in the Night but Left My Chick Tracts Behind | 237 | |
| Acknowledgments | 259 | |
| Notes | 261 |
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