The Holy Vote

Download or read book The Holy Vote written by Sarah H. Diefendorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork at a megachurch, sociologist Sarah Diefendorf investigates the ways in which evangelicals are working to grow as an institution during a time of cultural shifts that are leading young people to leave the faith. In order to grow, the church needs to reapproach topics long understood as external threats to the organization, such as feminism, gender equality, racial inclusivity, and queerness-topics that Diefendorf classifies as the "imagined secular" in the mind of evangelicals. She finds that the church's ways of reworking their messages to appear more welcoming still uphold already privileged identities"--