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Biblical porn : affect, labor, and pastor Mark Driscoll's evangelical empire
- Title
- Biblical porn : affect, labor, and pastor Mark Driscoll's evangelical empire / Jessica Johnson.
- Author
- Johnson, Jessica, 1971-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- viii, 246 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In this book, the author examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. The author shows how they were affectively recruited into sexualized and militarized dynamics of power through the mobilization of what she calls "biblical porn" - the affective labor of communicating, promoting, and embodying Driscoll's teaching on biblical masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, which simultaneously worked as a marketing strategy, social imaginary, and biopolitical instrument. The author theorizes religious conviction as a social process through which Mars Hill's congregants circulated and amplified feelings of hope, joy, shame, and paranoia as affective value that the church capitalized on to grow at all costs.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-234) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Arousing empire -- Under conviction -- Porn again Christian? -- The porn path -- Campaigning for empire -- Conclusion: Godly sorrow, worldly sorrow -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-7600
- ISBN
- 9780822371366
- 0822371367
- 9780822371533
- 0822371537
- LCCN
- 2017046939
- OCLC
- 994569650
- Author
- Johnson, Jessica, 1971- author.
- Title
- Biblical porn : affect, labor, and pastor Mark Driscoll's evangelical empire / Jessica Johnson.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-234) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Johnson, Jessica, 1971- Biblical porn. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9780822371601 (DLC) 2017051059
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-7600