Arthur E. Farnsley 
Flea Market Jesus [EPUB ebook] 

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Americans live their lives through institutions: government, businesses, schools, clubs, and houses of worship. But many Americans are wary of the control these groups–especially government and business–exercise over their lives.
Flea Market Jesus provides an up-close look at the rugged individualism of those trying hardest to separate themselves from institutions: flea market dealers. Having spent most of his life studying American religious organizations, Art Farnsley turns his attention to America’s most solitary, and alienated, entrepreneurs.
Farnsley describes an entire subculture of white Midwesterners–working class, middle class, and poor–gathered together in a uniquely American celebration of guns and frontier life. In this mix, the character ‘Cochise’ voices the frustrations of flea market dealers toward business, politics, and, especially, religion.
Part ethnography, part autobiography, Flea Market Jesus is a story about alienation, biblical literalism, libertarianism, and deep-seated religious belief. It is not about the Tea Party, the Occupy movement, or the Christian Right, but it shines a light on all of these by highlighting the potent combination of mistrust, resentment, and personal liberty too often kept in the shadows of public discourse among educated elites.

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Arthur E. Farnsley II is Research Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is the author of Southern Baptist Politics (1994); Rising Expectations: Urban Congregations, Welfare Reform and Civic Life (2003); and Sacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of an American City (2004). His stories have appeared on the cover of Christianity Today and The Christian Century. He is also twenty-two-time knife and tomahawk champion of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 128 ● ISBN 9781621893523 ● Taille du fichier 2.4 MB ● Maison d’édition Wipf and Stock Publishers ● Lieu Eugene ● Pays US ● Publié 2012 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6886840 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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