Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-261) and index.
Contents:
Christian media, gender, and civic participation -- Genteel masculinity, the prophetic posture, and legislative politics : Amazing grace -- Violence, suffering, and feminine submission : The passion of the Christ -- Brutish masculinity and the war on evil : Left behind -- Feminine charity, secular salvation, and social reform : 7th heaven -- Biology, heterosexuality, and the privatization of faithfulness : The da Vinci code -- The limits and possibilities of faith-based civic participation.
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