Description
Book SynopsisRedeem All examines the surprising intersection of American evangelicalism and tech innovation. Corrina Laughlin looks at the evangelical Christians who are invested in imagining, using, hacking, adapting, and creating new media technologies for religious purposes. She finds that entrepreneurs, pastors, missionaries, and social media celebrities interpret the promises born in Silicon Valley through the framework of evangelical culture and believe that digital media can help them (to paraphrase Steve Jobs) put their own dent in the universe. Laughlin introduces readers to startup churches hoping to reach a global population, entrepreneurs coding for a deeper purpose, digital missionaries networking with mobile phones, and Christian influencers and podcasters seeking new forms of community engagement. Redeem All reveals how evangelicalism has changed as it eagerly adopts the norms of the digital age.
Trade Review"Laughlin’s deft navigation of diverse scholarly literatures makes this volume a useful and appealing one for a variety of uses and audiences. . . .
Redeem All is an important profile that arrives at a key moment in the negotiation of evangelical identity." * Reading Religion *
"[A] wonderful, contributive scholarship that will lead to better understandings of the virtual and physical lives of American evangelicals today." * California History *
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Redeem All will be particularly valuable for those interested in the faith-tech scene and for scholars who focus on race and gender in contemporary evangelicalism." * Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Church: From the Megachurch to the Start-up
Church
2. The Start-up: The Culture of Faith-Tech and the
Promise of Redemptive Entrepreneurship
3. Media Missions: Proselytizing on the Electronic
Frontier
4. The Influencers: The Rise of Evangelical Influencers
and the Potency of Popular Parochial Feminism on
Social Media
5. Racial Reckoning and Repair: The Urgent
Conversation about Race on the Black Christian
Podcast Circuit
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
