Li Ma 
Babel Church [EPUB ebook] 
The Subversion of Christianity in an Age of Mass Media, Globalization, and #MeToo

Assisted by a diverse mass media industry, American evangelicalism has been long plagued by consumerism, entrepreneurism, and social engineering. Churches and movements that carry the name of Christ have become projects of ambition and scandals in the public eye. Without fixing its dysfunctions, these ministry models have expanded to other parts of the world, reaping similar fruits of corruption, prejudice, and abuses. The alarm call of #Me Too and #Church Too movements since 2017 made it more urgent for the global body of Christ to inspect its pathological patterns. What kind of response does the #Me Too movement require of our public theology and leadership ethics? Sociologist Li Ma invites us to re-engage with biblical exegesis while being attentive to new mandates of God revealed from #Me Too. A creative Ellulian integration of sociological analysis and theology, Babel Church incisively reveals why American evangelicalism and its global projects have succumbed to the temptations of worldly power at the expense of vulnerable members in the body of Christ.

Over de auteur

Li Ma has a Ph D in sociology from Cornell University. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.