Wes Markofski

New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

For most of the last century, popular and scholarly common sense has equated American evangelicalism with across-the-board social, economic, and political conservatism. However, if a growing chorus of evangelical leaders, media pundits, and religious scholars is to be believed, the era of uncontested evangelical conservatism is on the brink of collapse-if it hasn't collapsed already. Combining vivid ethnographic storytelling and incisive theoretical analysis, New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism introduces readers to the fascinating and unexplored terrain of neo-monastic evangelicalism. Often located in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, new monastic communities pursue religiously inspired visions of racial, social, and economic justice-alongside personal spiritual transformation-through diverse and creative expressions of radical community. In this account, Wes Markofski has immersed himself in the paradoxical world of evangelical neo-monasticism, focusing on the Urban Monastery-an influential neo-monastic community located in a gritty, racially diverse neighborhood in a major Midwestern American city. The resulting account of the way in which this movement reflects and is contributing to the transformation of American evangelicalism challenges entrenched stereotypes and calls attention to the dynamic diversity of religious and political points of view which vie for supremacy in the American evangelical subculture. New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism is the first sociological analysis of new monastic evangelicalism and the first major work to theorize the growing theological and political diversity within twenty-first-century American evangelicalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190273095
• Artikelnr.: 43436699

Autorenporträt

Wes Markofski is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Graduate Research Fellow in the Institute for Research on Poverty.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: A New Evangelicalism?
Part I: Neo-Monasticism and American Evangelicalism
Chapter 2: Evangelical Religion and Politics in the 20th Century
Chapter 3: Neo-Monasticism and the Field of American Evangelicalism
Part II: The Urban Monastery
Chapter 4: Belief and Meaning in an Urban Monastery
Chapter 5: Politics and Religion in an Urban Monastery
Chapter 6: Organizing Community for Holistic Mission: An Urban Monastery in Action
Conclusion
Chapter 7: The Transformation of American Evangelicalism
Appendix
References