Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture

by Heather Hendershot

In 1999, the Reverend Jerry Falwell outed Tinky-Winky, the purple character from TV's Teletubbies . Events such as this reinforced in many quarters the common idea that evangelicals are reactionary, out of touch, and just plain paranoid. But reducing evangelicals to such caricatures does not help us understand their true spiritual and political agendas and the means they use to advance them. Shaking the World for Jesus moves beyond sensationalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226326799
• ISBN13: 9780226326795
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"