The new evangelical social engagement / edited by Brian Steensland, Philip Goff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steensland, Brian, 1967- editor.

Goff, Philip, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism.

Christian sociology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

In recent years evangelical Christians have been increasingly turning their attention toward issues such as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. Such engagement marks both a return to historic evangelical social action and a pronounced expansion of the social agenda advanced by the Religious Right in the past few decades. For outsiders to evangelical culture, this trend complicates simplistic stereotypes. For insiders, it brings contention over what "true" evangelicalism means today. Beginning with an introduction that broadly outlines of this "new evangelicalism," the editors identify its key elements, trace its historical lineage, account for the recent changes taking place within evangelicalism, and highlight the implications of these changes for politics, civic engagement, and American religion. The essays that follow bring together an impressive interdisciplinary team of scholars to map this new religious terrain and spell out its significance in what is sure to become and essential text for understanding trends in contemporary evangelicalism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: The new evangelical social engagement / Brian Steensland and Philip Goff

"FORMED": emerging evangelicals navigate two transformations / James S. Bielo

Whose social justice? Which evangelicalism? Social engagement in a campus ministry / John Schmalzbauer

All Catholics now? Spectors of Catholicism in evangelical social engagement / Omri Elisha

The new monasticism / Will Samson

"We need a revival": young evangelical women redefine activism in New York City / Adriane Bilous

New and old evangelical public engagement: a view from the polls / John C. Green

Green evangelicals / Laurel Kearns

The rise of the diversity expert: how American evangelicals simultaneously accentuate and ignore race / Gerardo Marti and Michael O. Emerson

Prolifers of the Left: progressive evangelicals' campaign against abortion / Daniel K. Williams

Global reflex: international evangelicals, human rights, and the new shape of American social engagement / David R. Swartz

Global poverty and evangelical action / Amy Reynolds and Stephen Offutt

What's new about the new evangelical social engagement? / Joel Carpenter

Evangelicals of the 1970s and 2010s: what's the same, what's different, and what's urgent / R. Stephen Warner

We need a new reformation / Glen Harold Stassen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199329540

9780199329533

0199329532

OCLC:

852227568

Publisher Number:

99956874422