Stevenson, Jill.

Sensational devotion : evangelical performance in twenty-first century America / Jill Stevenson. - viii, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780472118731 (cloth : alk. paper) 0472118730 (cloth : alk. paper)

2012044694


2000 - 2099


Theater--Religious aspects.
Theater--History--United States--21st century.
Performance art.
Evangelicalism in literature.
Evangelicalism--History--United States--21st century.
Evangelicalism.
Literature.
Performance art.
Theater.
Theater--Religious aspects.


United States.


History.

PN 2049 / .S665 2013