Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith by Silliman, Daniel

Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective...
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Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith by Silliman, Daniel

Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

¥7,940

Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

¥7,940
Author: Daniel Silliman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped

Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its own institutions--institutions that shape imagination as much as they shape ideology.

In this unique exploration of evangelical subculture, Daniel Silliman shows readers how Christian fiction, and the empire of Christian publishing and bookselling it helped build, is key to understanding the formation of evangelical identity. With a close look at five best-selling novels--Love Comes Softly, This Present Darkness, Left Behind, The Shunning, and The Shack--Silliman considers what it was in these books that held such appeal and what effect their widespread popularity had on the evangelical imagination.

Reading Evangelicals ultimately makes the case that the worlds created in these novels reflected and shaped the world evangelicals saw themselves living in--one in which romantic love intertwines with divine love, humans play an active role in the cosmic contest between angels and demons, and the material world is infused with the literal workings of God and Satan. Silliman tells the story of how the Christian publishing industry marketed these ideas as much as they marketed books, and how, during the era of the Christian bookstore, this--every bit as much as politics or theology--became a locus of evangelical identity.



Author: Daniel Silliman
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780802879356


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/26/2021

About the Author
Daniel Silliman is the news editor for Christianity Today. He earned a doctorate in American studies from Heidelberg University in Germany and has taught US history and humanities at Heidelberg, Valparaiso University, and Milligan University.

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