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Sanctifying Suburbia

How the Suburbs Became the Promised Land for American Evangelicals

Brian J. (Professor of Sociology Miller

Sanctifying Suburbia

Sanctifying Suburbia

How the Suburbs Became the Promised Land for American Evangelicals

Sanctifying Suburbia

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The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelicals and thousands of evangelical congregations and organizations. This book explains how white evangelicals came to see the suburbs as a promised land.


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Beschrijving Sanctifying Suburbia

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and organizations. And while American evangelicals are a potent force in society and politics, their connection to and embrace of the suburbs are rarely examined. How did white evangelicals come to see the suburbs as a promised land, home to the evangelical good life and to dense concentrations and networks of evangelical residents, churches big and small, and nonprofit organizations? This book systematically assesses how evangelicals became intertwined with the suburbs and what this means for evangelical life.
Brian Miller shows how evangelical views of race and ethnicity, social class, and gender led to anti-urban sentiment, white flight, and the pursuit of racial exclusivity-all of which has led evangelicals to make the suburbs their physical and spiritual home. At the same time, clusters of evangelical organizations were planting themselves in the suburbs, drawing evangelicals out of the cities. Through sociological analysis, case studies of multiple communities with clusters of evangelical residents, and examinations of evangelical culture, Miller shows that in order to fully understand American evangelicals we must take a deeper look at how evangelicals embraced suburbs and how the suburbs shaped them.


ISBN
9780197679623
Pagina's
248
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Druk
1
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Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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