Salvation with a smile
Subtitle: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity
By: Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780814723883
Subjects: History; Lakewood Church (Houston, Tex.); Church history
Description: "Salvation with a Smile situates Lakewood Church in the context of American religious history and illuminates how Joel Osteen has parlayed an understanding of American religious and political culture into vast popularity and success,"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: John Osteen's Pentecost : the origins of Lakewood Church; title: John Osteen's prosperity gospel : faith and divine healing at the Oasis of Love; title: Joel Osteen's prosperity gospel, part I : "We believe in new beginnings"; title: Joel Osteen's prosperity gospel, part II : the mind, mouth, and body becoming better; title: Joel Osteen's tel-e-vangelism : the message and its media; title: Lakewood's charismatic core : healing hurts, extending hope; title: The redemptive self : finding and forging faith at Lakewood Church; title: Joel Osteen's piety of resistance : new Calvinism and evangelicalism's crisis of authority; title: Appendix A. Joel Osteen, "what the Resurrection means to us as believers" (1999); title: Appendix B. Joel Osteen, "Vision Sunday" (1999).