No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism

by David W. Stowe

Book Overview

In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. The chart-topping, spiritually inflected music created a space in popular culture for talk of Jesus, God, and Christianity, thus lessening for baby boomers and their children the stigma associated with religion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469606879
• ISBN13: 9781469606873
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"