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Author Elisha, Omri, 1972-

Title Moral ambition : mobilization and social outreach in evangelical megachurches / Omri Elisha.

Publication Info. Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Anthropology of Christianity ; 12
Anthropology of Christianity ; 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Awaking sleeping giants -- A region in spite of itself -- The names of action -- The spiritual injuries of class -- Compassion accounts -- Taking the (inner) city for God -- Epilogue.
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Big churches.
Big churches.
Church work.
Church work.
Missions.
Missions.
Church and social problems.
Church and social problems.
Evangelicalism -- Tennessee.
Evangelicalism.
Tennessee.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Mobilization and social outreach in evangelical megachurches
Other Form: Print version: Elisha, Omri, 1972- Moral ambition. Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011 9780520267503 (DLC) 2010053747 (OCoLC)695683676
ISBN 9780520950542 (electronic book)
0520950542 (electronic book)
9780520267503 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520267508 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520267510 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520267516 (paperback ; alkaline paper)