{"product_id":"gods-forever-family-the-jesus-people-movement-in-america-paperback","title":"God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry Eskridge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2014 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristianity Today \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook of the Year \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst Place Winner of the Religion Newswriters Association's Non-fiction Religion Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Jesus People movement was a unique combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical Christianity. It first appeared in the famed \"Summer of Love\" of 1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread like wildfire in Southern California and beyond, to cities like Seattle, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way into the national media spotlight and gained momentum, attracting a huge new following among evangelical church youth, who enthusiastically adopted the Jesus People persona as their own. Within a few years, however, the movement disappeared and was largely forgotten by everyone but those who had filled its ranks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eGod's Forever Family\u003c\/em\u003e argues that the Jesus People movement was one of the most important American religious movements of the second half of the 20th-century. Not only do such new and burgeoning evangelical groups as Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard trace back to the Jesus People, but the movement paved the way for the huge Contemporary Christian Music industry and the rise of \"Praise Music\" in the nation's churches. More significantly, it revolutionized evangelicals' relationship with youth and popular culture. Larry Eskridge makes the case that the Jesus People movement not only helped create a resurgent evangelicalism but must be considered one of the formative powers that shaped American youth in the late 1960s and 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLarry Eskridge \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in North Carolina and raised in the Chicago area, where he was involved with the Jesus People movement in the 1970s. A student of evangelicals' relationship to mass media and pop culture, he has been on the staff of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College since 1988.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 402\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51822445560096,"sku":"9780190881351","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/96b21bfd1942651b016228867f7b0c9b_45326054-2dd7-4013-9399-f71c83226b82.webp?v=1781173371","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/gods-forever-family-the-jesus-people-movement-in-america-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}