Brian J Miller

Sanctifying Suburbia

How the Suburbs Became the Promised Land for American Evangelicals

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197679623
• ISBN-10: 0197679625
• Artikelnr.: 73665453

Autorenporträt

Brian J. Miller is Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College, and co-author of Building Faith: A Sociology of Religious Structures.

Inhaltsangabe

* CONTENTS
* Preface: Evangelicals in Jesusland
* Chapter 1: Evangelicals, Suburbs, and the American Dream
* Chapter 2: Evangelicals and Suburbs: A History
* Chapter 3: Evangelicals and Other Protestant Groups Leave Chicago for
the Suburbs
* Chapter 4: United Evangelicals Across (Parts of) America
* Chapter 5: The Holy Suburb of Wheaton, Illinois
* Chapter 6: "Evangelical Meccas": Clusters of Evangelical
Organizations in Suburbs and Cities
* Chapter 7: Where Evangelicals and other American Religious Traditions
Live, 1972-2016
* Chapter 8: Evangelical Toolkits, Theology, and Suburbs
* Conclusion