God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

ISBN-13: 9780190881351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 402 str.

Larry Eskridge

Opis

The Jesus People were an unlikely combination of evangelical Christianity and the hippie counterculture. God's Forever Family is the first major examination of this phenomenon in over thirty years. It shows that the Jesus People not only helped create a new, engaged evangelical relationship to youth and popular culture but proved to be a major force in re-shaping a resurgent evangelical movement.

Recenzje

This well-researched and deftly written book will probably become the definitive history of the Jesus People movement, which caught the attention of the American public in the early 1970s.

O autorze

Larry Eskridge was born in North Carolina and raised in the Chicago area, where he was involved with the Jesus People movement in the 1970s. A student of evangelicals' relationship to mass media and pop culture, he was on the staff of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College for over 25 years.