Sensational devotion
Subtitle: evangelical performance in twenty-first century America
By: Jill Stevenson
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780472118731; 9780472029099
Subjects: Evangelicalism; Theater; Evangelicalism in literature; Performance art; Religious aspects; History
Description: 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).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: evangelical performative culture; title: Embodied belief, affective piety, and evangelical dramaturgy; title: Energetic enactments of Jesus; title: "Behold the lamb": passion playing, intermediality, and the Gibson affect; title: The "great passion play" and evangelical blends; title: The creation museum as engaged orthodoxy; title: Megachurches: cultivating affective atmosphere.