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Sensational devotion : evangelical performance in twenty-first century America / Jill Stevenson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472029099
  • 0472029096
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sensational devotion.DDC classification:
  • 792.0973 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2049
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Contents:
Introduction: evangelical performative culture -- Embodied belief, affective piety, and evangelical dramaturgy -- Energetic enactments of Jesus -- "Behold the lamb": passion playing, intermediality, and the Gibson affect -- The "great passion play" and evangelical blends -- The creation museum as engaged orthodoxy -- Megachurches: cultivating affective atmosphere.
Summary: Sensational Devotion examines contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land recreations, creationist museums, and megachurches in order to understand how they serve their evangelical believer-users while also shaping larger cultural and national dialogues. -- dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: evangelical performative culture -- Embodied belief, affective piety, and evangelical dramaturgy -- Energetic enactments of Jesus -- "Behold the lamb": passion playing, intermediality, and the Gibson affect -- The "great passion play" and evangelical blends -- The creation museum as engaged orthodoxy -- Megachurches: cultivating affective atmosphere.

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Sensational Devotion examines contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land recreations, creationist museums, and megachurches in order to understand how they serve their evangelical believer-users while also shaping larger cultural and national dialogues. -- dust jacket.

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