From the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Rock to Christian
Coalition canvassers working for George W. Bush, Americans have
long sought to integrate faith with politics. Few have been as
successful as Hollywood evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
During the years between the two world wars, McPherson was the
most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States.
She built an enormously successful and innovative megachurch,
established a mass media empire, and produced spellbinding
theatrical sermons that rivaled Tinseltown's spectacular shows. As
McPherson's power grew, she moved beyond religion into the realm of
politics, launching a national crusade to fight the teaching of
evolution in the schools, defend Prohibition, and resurrect what
she believed was the United States' Christian heritage. Convinced
that the antichrist was working to destroy the nation's Protestant
foundations, she and her allies saw themselves as a besieged
minority called by God to join the "old time religion" to American
patriotism.
Matthew Sutton's definitive study of Aimee Semple McPherson
reveals the woman, most often remembered as the hypocritical vamp
in Sinclair Lewis's "Elmer Gantry," as a trail-blazing pioneer. Her
life marked the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance from the
margins of Protestantism to the mainstream of American culture.
Indeed, from her location in Hollywood, McPherson's integration of
politics with faith set precedents for the religious right, while
her celebrity status, use of spectacle, and mass media savvy came
to define modern evangelicalism.
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