God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music

ISBN-13: 9780197555248 / Twarda / 2024 / 256 str.

Payne

Recenzje

God may have given Rock and Roll to white evangelicals, but as it turns out, they preferred a chimera instead: Contemporary Christian Music. As Leah Payne expertly shows in this indispensable survey, for several decades, CCM became a prized vehicle for the goal of many conservative religious movements: socialization and control.

O autorze

Leah Payne is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Portland Seminary. She is also a 2022-2023 Public Fellow at the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), and her research has been supported by the Louisville Institute and the Wabash Center for Teaching in Theology and Religion. Her first book, Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century, won the Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 2016 Book Award. Payne's work analyzing religion, politics, and popular culture has appeared in The Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, and Christianity Today. She is also co-host of Weird Religion, a podcast about religion and popular culture.