Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in by Jill C. Stevenson

By Jill C. Stevenson

Sensational Devotion examines modern ardour performs, biblical subject parks, Holy Land recreations, creationist museums, and megachurches that allows you to know how they serve their evangelical believer-users whereas additionally shaping better cultural and nationwide dialogues. Jill Stevenson explores how performative media help particular theologies and center ideals via developing sensual, reside reviews when you use them. The booklet explores evangelical functionality throughout more than a few media and websites, together with movie, tv, theater, vacationer sights, museums, and locations of worship. utilizing old examine coupled with firsthand studies, it seriously examines those areas and occasions inside their particular spiritual, cultural, and nationwide contexts, whereas putting them inside of an extended devotional culture to indicate how they domesticate non secular trust via producing shiny, sensual, affectively orientated, and individualized studies. Stevenson’s research builds upon current paintings on functionality and cognition, in addition to theories of impact, because it contributes to latest scholarship on American evangelicalism and evangelical Christian media. 

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