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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jessica JohnsonPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780822371366ISBN 10: 0822371367 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 17 May 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Arousing Empire 44 2. Under Conviction 76 3. Porn Again Christian? 111 4. The Porn Path 136 5. Campaigning for Empire 163 Conclusion. Godly Sorrow, Worldly Sorrow 185 Notes 195 Bibliography 229 Index 235ReviewsMark Driscoll's Mars Hill churches in Seattle took Calvinist insecurity to new levels, producing an everyday world of acute affective precarity. His church people lived in a slurry of shame, fear, threat, care, intimidation, hope, joy, and paranoia. Wives were exhorted to be their husbands' porn stars 24/7, and men-the victims of a nation `pussified' by feminists-should man-up, have sex on demand with their wives, and pursue air and ground war campaigns of `riot evangelism.' After nearly a decade of summary dismissals, shunning, demon trials, disciplinary interrogations, mass surveillance, and financial scandals, Driscoll's evangelical empire imploded. Jessica Johnson was there for the long haul and provides us with a theoretically rich and evocative reading of this traumatic episode of pastoral governance. -- Susan Friend Harding, author of * The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics * Much ink has been spilled over the scandals surrounding American evangelical megachurches, yet little of it engages the phenomenon of Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill with the elegance and sophistication of Jessica Johnson's work. Sharp, creative, and theoretically adroit, Biblical Porn offers a complex unpacking of an important dimension of contemporary evangelicalism. A wholly impressive book. -- Jason C. Bivins, author of * Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism * With deep insight and an absence of judgment, Johnson interprets the driving forces behind Driscoll's rhetoric, and the toxic effect it had on the believers who followed him. -- Claire Foster * Foreword * The saga of Mars Hill Church and its founder/pastor/charlatan Mark Driscoll . . . is treated to a thoughtful, scholarly dissection in this essential book by UW lecturer Jessica Johnson. It's almost impossible to discuss Driscoll's ignominious legacy without letting one's language be infected by ideological zeal (guilty). That's why Johnson's ethnographic approach, which focuses on the shrewd process by which Mars Hill recruited, flattered, and manipulated its herd, with special attention paid to issues of class, race, gender, and socialization. -- Sean Nelson * The Stranger * The enthralling story of the rise and fall of Mark Driscoll, former pastor of the defunct evangelical megachurch Mars Hill in Seattle. . . . Johnson is a talented storyteller. . . . * Publishers Weekly * Much ink has been spilled over the scandals surrounding American evangelical megachurches, yet little of it engages the phenomenon of Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill with the elegance and sophistication of Jessica Johnson's work. Sharp, creative, and theoretically adroit, Biblical Porn offers a complex unpacking of an important dimension of contemporary evangelicalism. A wholly impressive book. -- Jason C. Bivins, author of * Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism * Author InformationJessica Johnson teaches in the Departments of Anthropology and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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