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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374178909
ISBN-139780374178901
eBay Product ID (ePID)2270323
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmerican Jesus : How the Son of God Became a National Icon
Number of Pages376 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicChristian Theology / Christology, Christianity / History, History
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion
AuthorStephen R. Prothero
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight22.6 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-006947
Reviews"Prothero has crafted a marvelous book--and a great read--on a vital and absorbing subject." --Harvey Cox, author of Many Mansions: A Christian's Encounters with Other Faiths, "Prothero has crafted a marvelous book--and a great read--on a vital and absorbing subject." --Harvey Cox, author ofMany Mansions: A Christian's Encounters with Other Faiths
SynopsisThe Story of the Transformation of Jesus from Divinity to Celebrity The United States (it is often pointed out) is one of the most religious countries on earth, and most Americans belong to one Christian church or another. But as Stephen Prothero argues in American Jesus , many of the most interesting appraisals of Jesus have emerged outside the churches: in music, film, and popular culture; and among Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and people of no religion at all.Popular revisions of Jesus are nothing new: Thomas Jefferson famously took scissors to the New Testament to produce a Jesus he could call his own. In Prothero's incisive chronicle, the emergence of a cult of Jesus - as folk hero and commercial icon - is America's most distinctive contribution to Western religion. Prothero describes how Jesus was enlisted by abolitionists and Klansmen, by Teddy Roosevelt and Marcus Garvey. He explains how, in our own time, the proliferation of Jesus' image on Broadway stages and bumper stickers, on the cover of Time and on the Internet, in a Holy Land theme park and on a hot-air balloon, expresses the strange mix of the secular and the sacred in contemporary America. American Jesus is a lively and often witty work of history. As an account of the ways Americans have cast the carpenter from Nazareth in their own image, it is also an examination, through the looking glass, of the American character.
LC Classification NumberBT203.P76 2003
