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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynn S Neal |
ISBN: | 9780807829981 0807829986 9780807856703 0807856703 |
OCLC Number: | 61253862 |
Description: | xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The history of evangelical romance -- The discipline of fun -- The evaluation of romance -- The ministry of romantic fiction -- The fashioning of faith -- The romance of God. |
Responsibility: | Lynn S. Neal. |
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Abstract:
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.
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"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 to the Present" Read more...
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