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008			130416s2014 enk b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2013007803
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780195288983
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020			_z9780195288990 (ebook)
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050	0	0	_aBR 1642 .U5 B74 2014
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100	1		_aBrenneman, Todd M., _d1975-
245	1	0	_aHomespun gospel : _bthe triumph of sentimentality in contemporary American evangelicalism / _cTodd M. Brenneman.
264		1	_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c[2014]
300			_ax, 196 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-191) and index.
505	0		_aGod's in the business of giving mulligans : sentimentality and therapeutic culture -- You are special : the anti-intellectualism of sentimental evangelicalism -- "New York Times best-selling author" : Christian media and the marketing of sentiment -- America looks up : sentimentality, politics, and American evangelicalism.
520			_aIn popular evangelical literature, God is loving and friendly, described in heartfelt, often saccharine language that evokes nostalgia, comfortable domesticity, and familial love. This emotional style has been widely adopted by the writers most popular among American evangelicals, including such celebrity pastors as Max Lucado, Rick Warren, and Joel Osteen. Todd M. Brenneman provides groundbreaking insight into the phenomenon of evangelical sentimentality: an emotional appeal to readers' feelings about familial relationships, which can in turn be used as the basis for a relationship with God. Brenneman shows how evangelicals use tropes of God as father, human beings as children, and nostalgia for an imagined idyllic home life to provide alternate sources of social authority, intended to help evangelicals survive a culture that is philosophically at odds with conservative Christianity. Yet Brenneman also demonstrates that the sentimental focus on individual emotion and experience can undermine the evangelical agenda. Sentimentality is an effective means of achieving individual conversions, but it also promotes a narcissism that blinds evangelicals to larger social forces and impedes their ability to bring about the change they seek. --From publisher's description
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650		0	_aEvangelicalism _zUnited States _xHistory _y21st century.
650		0	_aSentimentalism.
650		0	_aEmotions _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
651		0	_aUnited States _xChurch history _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xChurch history _y21st century.
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