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Gray Sabbath: Jesus People USA, the Evangelical Left, and the Evolution of Christian Rock

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Formed in 1972, Jesus People USA is an evangelical Christian community that fundamentally transformed the American Christian music industry and the practice of American evangelicalism, which continues to evolve under its influence. On this fascinating ethnographic study, Shawn David Young replays not only the growth and influence of the group during the last three decades but also the left-leaning politics it developed that continue to serve as a catalyst for change.

Jesus People USA established a still-thriving Christian commune in downtown Chicago and a ground-breaking music festival that redefined the American Christian rock industry. Quite than sign up for “establishment” evangelicalism and participate in what would transform the megachurch movement, this community adopted a modified socialism and embraced types of activism often associated with the New Left. Lately the ideological tolerance of Jesus People USA aligns them closer to liberalism than to the religious right, and Young studies the embodiment of this liminality and its challenge to mainstream evangelical belief. He suggests the survival of this group is linked to a growing disenchantment with the separation of private and non-private, individual and community, and finds echoes of this postmodern faith deep inside the evangelical subculture.

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