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Bill Bright & Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America

Autor John G. Turner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2008

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Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism and adaptation to mainstream American culture. Despite the importance of these "parachurch" organizations, says John Turner, historians have largely ignored them.Turner offers an accessible and colorful history of Campus Crusade and its founder, Bill Bright, whose marketing and fund-raising acumen transformed the organization into an international evangelical empire. Drawing on archival materials and more than one hundred interviews, Turner challenges the dominant narrative of the secularization of higher education, demonstrating how Campus Crusade helped reestablish evangelical Christianity as a visible subculture on American campuses. Beyond the campus, Bright expanded evangelicalism's influence in the worlds of business and politics. As Turner demonstrates, the story of Campus Crusade reflects the halting movement of evangelicalism into mainstream American society: its awkward marriage with conservative politics, its hesitancy over gender roles and sexuality, and its growing affluence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780807858738
ISBN-10: 0807858730
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: University of North Carolina Press

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Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism and adaptation to mainstream American culture. Despite the importance of these "parachurch" organizations, says John Turner, historians have largely ignored them.Turner offers an accessible and colorful history of Campus Crusade and its founder, Bill Bright, whose marketing and fund-raising acumen transformed the organization into an international evangelical empire. Drawing on archival materials and more than one hundred interviews, Turner challenges the dominant narrative of the secularization of higher education, demonstrating how Campus Crusade helped reestablish evangelical Christianity as a visible subculture on American campuses. Beyond the campus, Bright expanded evangelicalism's influence in the worlds of business and politics. As Turner demonstrates, the story of Campus Crusade reflects the halting movement of evangelicalism into mainstream American society: its awkward marriage with conservative politics, its hesitancy over gender roles and sexuality, and its growing affluence.

Recenzii

Turneras deeply researched narrative belongs on the shelf of anyone thinking and writing about evangelicalism in the public square. . . . Indispensable.--"Christianity Today"
A thought-provoking glimpse into the trajectory of modern evangelicalism.--"Publishers Weekly"

This work is invaluable for investigating the history of this organization.
--"Library Journal"
"Turner nicely captures the animosity of mainline Protestant campus ministries."
-- "Books & Culture"
"A meticulous and well-documented account of Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ. . . . Invaluable for investigating the history of this organization."
-- "Library Journal"
"A useful supplement for courses on American Christianity. . . . We need more books like Turner's to deepen our understanding."
--"Church History"
"Sheds new light on the past half-century of religious life in the United States, and the author is to be commended for developing the history without becoming either defender or mocker of the subject. . . . Exceptionally well done . . . it deserves a wide audience of professional and amateur historians alike."
--"Maryland Historical Magazine"
"Anyone who wants to understand modern American evangelicalism and its impact on the nation's culture and politics will find Turner's book informative and rewarding."
--"Georgia Historical Quarterly"
"[An] important, well-written, and thoroughly researched book. . . . Highly recommended."
-- "Choice"
"[An] intelligently contextualized biography. . . . Turner has done a wonderful job of bringing Bill Bright out of the shadow of Billy Graham and thereby greatly enhancing our understanding of the new evangelicalism."
-- "The Journal of American History"
"Crisply written and well-crafted. . . . An important contribution to a new generation of evangelical historiography."
-- "Journal of Southern History"
[A]n important contribution to the study of American evangelicalism, filling a large gap in the current literature.
—Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University
"An excellent analysis of postwar American evangelicalism. . . . Well-written, thorough, carefully researched, and engaging."
-"Religious Studies Review"

Notă biografică

John G. Turner is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama.

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