Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith Silliman Daniel
The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shapedWho are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those…
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The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shapedWho 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
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