Rescuing Jesus : how people of color, women, and queer Christians are reclaiming evangelicalism /

Lee, Deborah Jian, 1980-

Rescuing Jesus : how people of color, women, and queer Christians are reclaiming evangelicalism / Deborah Jian Lee. - 288 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288).

Part 1. Conformists -- Assimilate to survive -- Good Christian girls -- Safety in the closet -- Part 2. Skeptics -- Racial awakenings -- Submit no more -- Coming out -- Part 3. Radicals -- Made in the image of God -- Femmevangelical -- Pride.

Journalist Deborah Jian Lee ventures into the world of progressive evangelicalism and tells the stories of the young women and men--LGBTQ and straight; white, black, Asian, Hispanic, and indigenous--at the forefront of a movement that could alter both the face and the substance of religion in the United States.--From publisher description.

9780807033470 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0807033472 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2015013052


Church and minorities.
Social integration--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Evangelicalism.

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