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By April Stace

Easter Sunday, 2009, used to be the Sunday heard ‘round the evangelical web: NewSpring Church, the second-largest church within the Southern Baptist conference and one of the most sensible 100 biggest church buildings within the US, had started their provider with the tune “Highway to Hell” via challenging rock band AC/DC. they'd overtly crossed the sacred/secular musical divide at the most vital Sunday of the yr, and remark abounded at the worth of any such step. Many have been angry on the “desecration” of one of these holy day, deriding Newspring because the “theater of the absurd.” Others cheered NewSpring’s engagement with “the tradition” and steered that track can be used to transform non-Christians. No mere debate over stylistic personal tastes, many expressed that foundational facets of evangelical id have been at stake.
While many books were written approximately non secular song that makes use of renowned tune types (a.k.a. “contemporary Christian music”), there has but to be a scholarly remedy of the way and why renowned, secular tune is used by church buildings. This booklet addresses that lacuna via studying this rising development in evangelical and “emerging” church buildings in the USA. what's the motivation at the back of utilizing tune that probably has no connection to Christian theology, values, or themes—such as track by means of Katy Perry, AC/DC, or Van Halen—and what will we know about post-denominational evangelical church buildings in the United States via uncovering those explanations?
In this e-book, April Stace uncovers numerous subject matters from an ethnographic learn of those church buildings: the increasingly-porous boundary among the sacred and the secular, the significance put on “authenticity” in modern American tradition, how evangelicals are responding to what they understand is an increasingly-secular society, the “turn to the topic” of latest tradition, the will to depart an area for expression of doubt within the worship carrier with no absolutely authorizing that doubt, and the individualization of the development of spiritual identification within the sleek era.

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