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Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction
Lynn S. Neal
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Description for Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction
Paperback. In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party, the divine. This book states that women's interpretations demonstrate the constant negotiations that characterize evangelical living. It shows the aesthetic sensibility to help alter conventional understandings, both secular and religious. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.
In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party - the divine. Thus, romance is not just an encounter between lovers, but a triangle of affection: man, woman, and God. Although this literature is often disparaged by scholars and pastors alike, inspirational fiction plays a unique and important role in the religious lives of many evangelical women. In an engaging study of why women read evangelical romance novels, Lynn S. Neal interviews writers and readers of the genre and finds a complex religious piety among ordinary people. In evangelical love stories, ... Read more
In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party - the divine. Thus, romance is not just an encounter between lovers, but a triangle of affection: man, woman, and God. Although this literature is often disparaged by scholars and pastors alike, inspirational fiction plays a unique and important role in the religious lives of many evangelical women. In an engaging study of why women read evangelical romance novels, Lynn S. Neal interviews writers and readers of the genre and finds a complex religious piety among ordinary people. In evangelical love stories, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807856703
SKU
V9780807856703
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About Lynn S. Neal
LYNN S. NEAL is assistant professor of religion at Appalachian State University.
Reviews for Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction
"Neal's book is a page-turner itself.... Here is a lively but nuanced view of evangelical Protestant belief, bypassing the tired stereotypes of the culture wars to describe a female piety of 'divine romance' that is at once deeply moral yet open to pleasure, spiritually passionate and surprisingly tolerant of human difference." - Margaret Bendroth, author of Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 ... Read more