Biblical Porn

Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll's Evangelical Empire

Jessica Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7136-6 (ISBN)

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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 Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnson 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. Johnson 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.

Jessica Johnson teaches in the Departments of Anthropology and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Arousing Empire 44
2. Under Conviction 76
3. Porn Again Christian? 111
4. The Porn Path 136
5. Campaigning for Empire 163
Conclusion. Godly Sorrow, Worldly Sorrow 185
Notes 195
Bibliography 229
Index 235

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8223-7136-7 / 0822371367
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-7136-6 / 9780822371366
Zustand	Neuware