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american history
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american religion
Author_Eileen Luhr
bible
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christian heavy metal
christian metal
christian music
christian music festivals
christian rock
christianity
conservative politics
culture wars
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evangelical consumerism
evangelical youth
evangelicalism
faith
jesus freaks
modern religion
nonfiction
politics
popular culture
reagan
reagan bush
religion
religious revival
religious studies
secularism
suburbs
third wave conservatism
united states
witnessing
youth culture
Product details
- ISBN 9780520255968
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Witnessing Suburbia" is a lively cultural analysis of the conservative shift in national politics that transformed the United States during the Reagan-Bush era. Eileen Luhr focuses on two fundamental aspects of this shift: the suburbanization of evangelicalism and the rise of Christian popular culture, especially popular music. Taking us from the Jesus Freaks of the late 1960s to Christian heavy metal music to Christian rock festivals and beyond, she shows how evangelicals succeeded in 'witnessing' to America's suburbs in a consumer idiom. Luhr argues that the emergence of a politicized evangelical youth culture in fact ranks as one of the major achievements of 'third wave' conservatism in the late twentieth century.
Eileen Luhr is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at California State University, Long Beach.
