| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| Contents |
Introduction : Standing in the gaps -- pt. 1. Rites of origin -- Speaking is believing -- Fundamentalist exile -- pt. 2. Sites of revision -- Art of Jerry Falwell -- Sacrificial economics -- Cultural exodus -- Moral majority jeremiad -- Pro-life gospel -- Creation museum -- Last days -- Born-again telescandals -- Appendix A : Thomas Road Baptist Church statement of doctrine -- Appendix B : Sources of Jerry Falwell's sermons |
| Summary |
"Susan Harding, a cultural anthropologist, set out in the 1980s to understand the significance of Christian fundamentalism to date. Falwell and his co-pastors were the pivotal figures in the movement. It is on them that Harding focuses, and, in particular, their use of the Bible's language. She argues that this language is the medium through which born-again Christians, individual and collective, come to understand themselves as Christians. And it is inside this language that much of the born-again movement took place. Preachers like Falwell command a Bible-based poetics of great complexity, variety, creativity, and force, and, with it, attempt to mold their churches into living testaments of the Bible |
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Harding focuses on the words - sermons, speeches, books, audiotapes, and television broadcasts - of individual preachers, particularly Falwell, as they rewrote their Bible-based tradition to include, rather than exclude, intense worldly engagement. As a result of these efforts, born-again Christians recast themselves as a people not separated from but engaged in making history."--Jacket |
| Notes |
"Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2001"--Title page verso |
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Originally published: 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index |
| Notes |
Print version |
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Falwell, Jerry -- Language
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Falwell, Jerry -- Oratory
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Falwell, Jerry fast |
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Falwell, Jerry 1933-2007 gnd |
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Falwell, Jerry, 1933- ... ram |
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Falwell, Jerry. swd |
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Fundamentalism.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Christianity.
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Christianity
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Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
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Christianity
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Fundamentalism
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Language and languages
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Oratory
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Christentum
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Fundamentalismus
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Sprache
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Protestantisme.
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Fundamentalisme.
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Religieuze taal.
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Politieke invloed.
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Fondamentalisme protestant -- États-Unis.
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Histoire religieuse -- États-Unis.
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Langage et langues -- Aspect religieux.
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USA
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0691059896 |
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9780691059891 |
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9780691190464 |
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0691190461 |
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