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Reformed Resurgence - The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
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Reformed Resurgence - The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
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One of the most significant developments within contemporary
American Christianity, especially among younger evangelicals, is a
groundswell of interest in the Reformed tradition. In Reformed
Resurgence, Brad Vermurlen provides a comprehensive sociological
account of this phenomenon - known as New Calvinism - and what it
entails for the broader evangelical landscape in the United States.
Vermurlen develops a new theory for understanding how conservative
religion can be strong and thrive in the hypermodern Western world.
His paradigm uses and expands on strategic action field theory, a
recent framework proposed for the study of movements and
organizations that has rarely been applied to religion. This
approach to religion moves beyond market dynamics and cultural
happenstance and instead shows how religious strength can be fought
for and won as the direct result of religious leaders' strategic
actions and conflicts. But the battle comes at a cost. For the same
reasons conservative Calvinistic belief is experiencing a
resurgence, present-day American evangelicalism has turned in on
itself. Vermurlen argues that in the end, evangelicalism in the
United States consists of pockets of subcultural and local strength
within the "cultural entropy" of secularization, as religious
meanings and coherence fall apart.
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