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Moral Ambition
Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches
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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.
University of California Press; June 2011
276 pages; ISBN 9780520950542
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276 pages; ISBN 9780520950542
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Subject categories
- Academic > Divinity and Practical Theology > City churches > City churches
- Academic > Divinity and Practical Theology > City churches > Big churches
- Academic > Divinity and Practical Theology > Feast days > Corpus Christi Festival
- Academic > Divinity and Practical Theology > Worship Public and private > Worship; History; Early church, ca. 30-600
- Social Science > Anthropology
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9780520950542
9780520267503
0520950542