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Author:

Lee, Deborah Jian, 1980-

Title:

Rescuing Jesus : how people of color, women, and queer Christians are reclaiming evangelicalism / Deborah Jian Lee.

Publisher:

Beacon Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

288 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Church and minorities.
Social integration--Christianity.--Christianity.
Evangelicalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288).

Contents:

Conformists -- Assimilate to survive -- Good Christian girls -- Safety in the closet -- Skeptics -- Racial awakenings -- Submit no more -- Coming out -- Radicals -- Made in the image of God -- Femmevangelical -- Pride.

Summary:

Journalist Deborah Jian Lee ventures into the world of progressive evangelicalism and tells the stories of the young women and men--LGBTQ and straight; white, black, Asian, Hispanic, and indigenous--at the forefront of a movement that could alter both the face and the substance of religion in the United States.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

0807033472 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780807033470 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2015013052

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)