Title: Sensational devotion : evangelical performance in twenty-first-century America /
Authors: Stevenson, Jill
Year: 2013
Subjects: Theater Religious aspects.; Theater United States History; Performance art; Evangelicalism in literature.; Evangelicalism United States History
Abstract: Sensational Devotion examines contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land recreations, creationist museums, and megachurches in order to understand how they serve their evangelical believer-users while also shaping larger cultural and national dialogues. (dust jacket).
Contents: Introduction: evangelical performative culture -- Embodied belief, affective piety, and evangelical dramaturgy -- Energetic enactments of Jesus -- "Behold the lamb": passion playing, intermediality, and the Gibson affect -- The "great passion play" and evangelical blends -- The creation museum as engaged orthodoxy -- Megachurches: cultivating affective atmosphere.