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Author Stevenson, Jill, author.

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

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Theater -- Religious aspects.
Theater -- Religious aspects.
Theater -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Theater.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Performance art.
Performance art.
Evangelicalism in literature.
Evangelicalism in literature.
Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Evangelicalism.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Performance art.
Other Form: Print version: Stevenson, Jill. Sensational devotion. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013 9780472118731 (DLC) 2012044694 (OCoLC)820123705
ISBN 9780472029099 (electronic book)
0472029096 (electronic book)
9780472118731
0472118730
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.5159114