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Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ John G. Turner

Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ By John G. Turner

Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ by John G. Turner


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Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, boasting of an annual budget of more than $500 million. This book offers a history of Campus Crusade and its founder, Bill Bright, whose marketing acumen transformed the organization into an evangelical empire.

Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ Summary

Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America by John G. Turner

Marketing Jesus to modern America.Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism and adaptation to mainstream American culture. Despite the importance of these parachurch organizations, says John Turner, historians have largely ignored them.Turner offers an accessible and colorful history of Campus Crusade and its founder, Bill Bright, whose marketing and fund-raising acumen transformed the organization into an international evangelical empire. Drawing on archival materials and more than one hundred interviews, Turner challenges the dominant narrative of the secularization of higher education, demonstrating how Campus Crusade helped reestablish evangelical Christianity as a visible subculture on American campuses. Beyond the campus, Bright expanded evangelicalism's influence in the worlds of business and politics. As Turner demonstrates, the story of Campus Crusade reflects the halting movement of evangelicalism into mainstream American society: its awkward marriage with conservative politics, its hesitancy over gender roles and sexuality, and its growing affluence.

About John G. Turner

JOHN G. TURNER is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama.

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NLS9780807858738
9780807858738
0807858730
Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America by John G. Turner
New
Paperback
The University of North Carolina Press
2008-03-31
304
Winner of Christianity Today Book Award (History/Biography) 2009
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