Title:
Rescuing Jesus : how people of color, women, & queer Christians are reclaiming evangelicalism
Author:
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
Boston : Beacon Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
288 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780807075074
Abstract:
Journalist Deborah Jian Lee ventures into the world of progressive evangelicalism and tells the stories of the young women and men--LGBTQ and straight; white, black, Asian, Hispanic, and indigenous--at the forefront of a movement that could alter both the face and the substance of religion in the United States.--From publisher description.
Contents:
Part 1. Conformists -- Assimilate to survive -- Good Christian girls -- Safety in the closet -- Part 2. Skeptics -- Racial awakenings -- Submit no more -- Coming out -- Part 3. Radicals -- Made in the image of God -- Femmevangelical -- Pride.
Language:
English
