| Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement Contributor(s): Sandler, Lauren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143112376 ISBN-13: 9780143112372 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: What happens when today's counterculture has a mindset more akin to Jerry Falwell's than Abbie Hoffman's? Sandler's eye-opening and empathetic investigation uncovers America's new moral majority--dressed up in punk-rock garb--and how it is shaping the future of America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - History | Social History - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 277.308 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.34" W x 7.7" (0.40 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Topical - Teen |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Illuminating, often troubling, and unapologetically frank, Righteous is dynamic young journalist Lauren Sandler's report from the nexus of religious fundamentalism and youth culture. As a secular guide through the passion and politics of the teenage evangelical Disciple Generation, Sandler offers the first front line exploration of the Christian youth counterculture and what its influence could mean for the future of America. She intimately connects with skateboarding missionaries, tattooed members of a self-sufficient postpunk mega- church, rock- 'n'-rolling antiabortion protestors, and rap preachers who merge hip-hop's love of money with old- fashioned Bible-beating fundamentalism-true believers who reveal themselves with openness and truly astonishing candor, but what they reveal about our nation is most astonishing of all. |
