Witnessing suburbia : conservatives and Christian youth culture / Eileen Luhr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luhr, Eileen, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Evangelicalism.

Suburbs.

History.

Christian youth--Religious life.

Christianity and culture.

United States.

Christianity and culture--United States--History--20th century.

Christian youth--Religious life--United States--History--20th century.

Christian youth.

Suburbs--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]

Summary:

Witnessing Suburbia is a lively cultural analysis of the conservative shift that transformed national politics in the United States during the Reagan-Bush era. Eileen Luhr focuses on two fundamental aspects of this shift: the suburbanization of evangelicalism and the rise of Christian popular culture, especially popular music. Taking us from the Jesus Freaks of the late 1960s to Christian heavy metal music to Christian rock festivals and beyond, she shows how evangelicals succeeded in "witnessing" to America's suburbs in a consumer idiom. In fact, Luhr argues that the emergence of a politicized evangelical youth culture ranks as one of the major achievements of "third wave" conservatism in the late twentieth century.

Contents:

1 Home Improvement: Christian Cultural Criticism and the Defense of "Traditional" Authority 30

2 Rebel with a Cross: The Creation of a Christian Youth Culture 68

3 Metal Missionaries to the Nation: Christian Heavy Metal Music, 1984-1994 111

4 "An MTV Approach to Evangelism": The Cultural Politics of Suburban Revivalism 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780520255944

0520255941

9780520255968

0520255968

OCLC:

226037765