God's Forever Family

The Jesus People Movement in America

AvLarry Eskridge

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Winner of the 2014 Christianity Today Book of the Year First Place Winner of the Religion Newswriters Association's Non-fiction Religion Book of the Year The Jesus People movement was a unique combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical Christianity. It first appeared in the famed "Summer of Love" of 1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread like wildfire in Southern California and beyond, to cities like Seattle, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way into the national media spotlight and gained momentum, attracting a huge new following among evangelical church youth, who enthusiastically adopted the Jesus People persona as their own. Within a few years, however, the movement disappeared and was largely forgotten by everyone but those who had filled its ranks.God's Forever Family argues that the Jesus People movement was one of the most important American religious movements of the second half of the 20th-century. Not only do such new and burgeoning evangelical groups as Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard trace back to the Jesus People, but the movement paved the way for the huge Contemporary Christian Music industry and the rise of "Praise Music" in the nation's churches. More significantly, it revolutionized evangelicals' relationship with youth and popular culture. Larry Eskridge makes the case that the Jesus People movement not only helped create a resurgent evangelicalism but must be considered one of the formative powers that shaped American youth in the late 1960s and 1970s.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-10
Mått:155 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt:612 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:402
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190881351

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Larry Eskridge was born in North Carolina and raised in the Chicago area, where he was involved with the Jesus People movement in the 1970s. A student of evangelicals' relationship to mass media and pop culture, he was on the staff of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College for over 25 years.

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[An] excellent new book...The book reads as an invaluable chronicle of an important moment in the history of American evangelicalism...This is an important, valuable, and engaging book that will certainly be the standard on the Jesus People movement for years to come.

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Introduction: Remembering the Jesus Generation 1: 'God Knocked Me off My Metaphysical Ass': The First "Jesus Freaks" in San Francisco 2: Jesus Comes to Haight-Ashbury 3: ". . . and Your Sons and Your Daughters Shall Prophecy": The Jesus People Movement in Southern California, 1968-1969 4: Unto Seattle, Milwaukee, New Jersey, and the Uttermost Parts: The Jesus People Movement Goes Nationwide 5: It Only Takes a Spark: The Jesus People Movement in the National Spotlight 6: The Jesus Kids: The Jesus People Movement Becomes Evangelical Youth Culture, 1971-1974 7: Division in the Camp: The Jesus People vs. the Children of God 8: Sweet, Sweet Song of Salvation: Music and the Jesus People 9: I Wish We'd All Been Ready: The Jesus People Fade From View 10: God's Forever Family: The Long-Term Impact of the Jesus People Movement Appendix A: Jesus People Survey: Tabulations and Comments

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