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Inside Evangelicalism: The Culture of Conservative White Christianity

Inside Evangelicalism: The Culture of Conservative White Christianity
Author: Mark Ward
Price: $117.00
ISBN-10: 1666946443
ISBN-13: 9781666946444
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In <i>Inside Evangelicalism</i>, Mark Ward Sr. combines ethnographic, autoethnographic, and sociolinguistic research to identify and analyze white evangelicals&rsquo; distinctive culture and speech code from a perspective rooted deeply in both communication studies and the evangelical community. The Bible emerges as evangelicalism&rsquo;s one dominant symbol that unifies all meaning and divides the world into a cosmic dualism between secular humanism and an all-encompassing &ldquo;biblical worldview.&rdquo; The associated language of literalism drives evangelical culture, cognition, and identity, creating a system of ordered social relations enacted through patriarchy, anti-intellectualism, authoritarianism, and white Christian nationalism. Ward&rsquo;s positionality as both an ethnographer of religious communication who has observed white evangelical culture for two decades and a self-identified evangelical for four decades makes him uniquely qualified to cast an insider&rsquo;s critical yet balanced eye on conservative white Christian culture. <i>Inside Evangelicalism</i> complements existing scholarship within anthropology and sociology&mdash;where evangelicalism has been studied in conjunction with the rise of the Religious Right&mdash;while contributing unique insights from religious communication studies. The book is also a landmark in its own right, a work that demonstrates the productive complementarity of ethnographic and autoethnographic research and the first study to describe evangelical culture through the ethnography of its communication.