TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fletcher,John
TI  - Preaching to convert: evangelical outreach and performance activism in a secular age 
SN  - 9780472029877
AV  - BV3790 .F548 2013eb
U1  - 269.2 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ann Arbor [Michigan]
PB  - The University of Michigan Press
KW  - Evangelistic work
KW  - Preaching
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Religious awakening
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Antinomianism
KW  - Sermons
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Spiritual Growth
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Tackling You to Change the World; 1. Performance Activism, Progressive Oversights, and Deep Differences; 2. Positioning Secular Age Evangelicalism; 3. Face to Face, Door to Door: Personal Evangelism and the Scandal of Salvation; 4. Apologies and Apologetics: Meta-Kerygmatic Evangelism; 5. Hell and Judgement: Houses of Distinction; 6. Prepare to Believe: Performing the Evangelical Worldview at the Creation Museum; 7. Staging Church, Marketing the Divine; 8. Change Is Possible: Exodus and the Opposite of Homosexuality; Conclusion: American Grace and Evangelical True BelieversNotes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - 'Preaching to Convert' offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of US evangelicals. Author John Fletcher frames these activities, from door-to-door proselytising to the spirited sermons of superstar televangelists, as examples of activist performance, broadly defined here as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.4078895
ER  -