Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America

by Jill C. Stevenson

Book Overview

The various media genres involving evangelical performance may seem tangential but are in fact significant and influential cultural products employing sophisticated tactics to reach large audiences of firm believers, extreme skeptics, and those in between. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472036513
• ISBN13: 9780472036516
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"