Altar call in Europe : Billy Graham, mass evangelism, and the Cold-War West / Uta A. Balbier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balbier, Uta A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelistic work--Europe--History--20th century.

Evangelistic work.

Revivals--Europe--History--20th century.

Revivals.

Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.

Graham, Billy.

Europe--Church history--20th century.

Europe.

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Billy Graham's ministry is often described as a quintessentially American success story. This book, however, explores how Graham's encounters and perception in Europe shaped what was from the beginning on an international ministry. The revival meetings which Billy Graham held in London, Berlin, and New York in the 1950s provided lively fora for ministers, politicians, and ordinary Christians to imagine and experience the future of faith, the role of religion in the Cold War, and the intersections between faith and consumer culture in new ways.

Contents:

Cover

Altar Call in Europe

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Reviving Religion: Billy Graham's Early Crusades in the Religious Landscapes after World War II

2. Selling Religion: The Business of Revivalism at the Early Billy Graham Crusades

3. Politicizing Religion: Re-​Christianization, Anticommunism, and the Making of the Spiritual Free World

4. Living Religion: Everyday Religious Life during the Billy Graham Crusades

5. Experiencing Religion: Communities and Conversions at the Billy Graham Crusades

Epilogue. The Secular Crusades: Graham's Return in 1966

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-750227-X

0-19-750228-8

0-19-750226-1

OCLC:

1281980721