New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism

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ID20000529
AuthorsWes Markofski (corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages400
Publication date2015-06-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNew Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190236496.001.0001
OpenAlexW4301828473
Open LibraryOL28566615M
ISBN9780190236496
LanguageEN
Citations received25

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. From 2006 to 2011, the author of New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism immersed himself in the paradoxical world of evangelical neo-monasticism—and the Urban Monastery, in particular—an influential neo-monastic community located in a gritty, racially diverse neighborhood in a major Midwestern city. New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism situates evangelical neo-monasticism in the larger field of American evangelicalism, deploying Bourdieusian field theory to analyze neo-monastic evangelicalism as a specific case of how American evangelicalism transforms and reproduces itself. 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 has not collapsed already. This sweeping account of the transformation of American evangelicalism deftly 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 field. As 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, New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism makes a significant and original contribution to the sociological study of evangelical Christianity in the United States

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