California Jesus: A (Slightly) Irreverent Guide to the Golden State`s Christian Sects, Evangelists and Latter-Day Prophets 9781579512309

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Автор: Marinacci Michael
Название: California Jesus: A (Slightly) Irreverent Guide to the Golden State`s Christian Sects, Evangelists and Latter-Day Prophets
ISBN: 9781579512309
Издательство: Ronin Publishing (CA)
Классификация:

Современные нехристианские и парахристианские культы и секты

ISBN-10: 1579512305
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 200
Вес: 0.34 кг.
Дата издания: 11.10.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 201 x 201 x 10
Поставляется из: США
Описание: California, long a Mecca for eccentric cults, has also hosted more than its share of unusual and unorthodox Christian evangelists and sects. From pre-Gold Rush days to the 21st Century, visionaries seeking to revive or transform the Faith have flocked to Californias shores, or have emerged from its environs as native sons and daughters. Their often-idiosyncratic crusades have influenced not only Golden State history and culture, but Christianity as a whole.
California Jesus tells the little-known yet fascinating stories behind the people and groups that populate Californian Christendom, including:
- The Children of God -- Born on the Huntington Beach boardwalk, this Jesus People hippie-ministry turned to prostituting its members and molesting its children in the name of Christ
- Bebe and C. Thomas Patten -- married evangelists, these Oakland-based Pentecostal preachers scammed penniless Okie immigrants and major banks alike for millions
- Joe Jeffers -- a renegade Baptist minister who started a murderous religious war between his followers and a rivals, made headlines in lurid L.A. sex scandals, and claimed that Yahweh had stashed several billion dollars for him in the constellation Orion
- The Metropolitan Community Church -- Gay L.A. evangelist Troy Perry challenges homophobia with a hugely controversial, and much-attacked sect that ministers Christs love to sexual outsiders
- Church of the Holy Family -- film-star Mel Gibsons schismatic, secretive Malibu parish, which claims to be literally more Catholic than the Pope
- Holy Mountain -- a huge, bizarre, ever-growing folk-art monument in the Imperial Valley desert built by an aging drifter to glorify Gods love, thats now become an international tourist destination
- And many, many more
Filled with captivating anecdotes about the states most colorful and controversial Christian pastors and sects, and accompanied by many rare photos and illustrations, California Jesus illuminates this absorbing yet little-discussed aspect of both state history and culture, and the Christian experience. Believers and doubters alike, as well as anyone interested in the Golden States unique spiritual heritage, will find this work hard to put down.

California Jesus: A (Slightly) Irreverent Guide to the Golden State`s Christian Sects, Evangelists and Latter-Day Prophets, Marinacci Michael