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    Righteous

    Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement

    Author Lauren Sandler
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Aug 28, 2007 | 272 Pages | 9780143112372
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    Illuminating, often troubling, and unapologetically frank, Righteous is dynamic young journalist Lauren Sandler's report from the nexus of religious fundamentalism and youth culture. As a secular guide through the passion and politics of the teenage evangelical "Disciple Generation," Sandler offers the first front line exploration of the Christian youth counterculture and what its influence could mean for the future of America. She intimately connects with skateboarding missionaries, tattooed members of a self-sufficient postpunk mega- church, rock- 'n'-rolling antiabortion protestors, and rap preachers who merge hip-hop's love of money with old- fashioned Bible-beating fundamentalism-true believers who reveal themselves with openness and truly astonishing candor, but what they reveal about our nation is most astonishing of all.
    RighteousYou'll Feel Lead

    1. Fetal Position
    2. Come as You Are
    3. Saved on the Half-Pipe
    4. In the Name of the Father
    5. Soldiers of Fortune
    6. The Ultimate Party School
    7. Evolutionary War
    8. The Last Generation

    Slouching Toward Babylon

    Acknowledgments
    Sources for Numbers

    © Justin Lane

    Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist. She is the bestselling author of One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being Oneand Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement. Her essays and features have appeared in dozens of publications including Time, The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian, and New York. Sandler has led the OpEd Project's Public Voices Fellowships at Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth, and has taught in the graduate journalism program at NYU, where she has also been a visiting scholar. She was Poynter Fellow at Yale and a fellow at MacDowell.

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    "...an intriguing journey into a burgeoning and often contradictory phenomenon"
    -The Washington Post

    "If you have any doubt that there is a culture war that must be waged and won by secularists in America, read this book."
    -Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith

    "Compassion for her subjects and brisk writing make her increasingly alarming story go down easy."
    -Rocky Mountain News

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    Illuminating, often troubling, and unapologetically frank, Righteous is dynamic young journalist Lauren Sandler's report from the nexus of religious fundamentalism and youth culture. As a secular guide through the passion and politics of the teenage evangelical "Disciple Generation," Sandler offers the first front line exploration of the Christian youth counterculture and what its influence could mean for the future of America. She intimately connects with skateboarding missionaries, tattooed members of a self-sufficient postpunk mega- church, rock- 'n'-rolling antiabortion protestors, and rap preachers who merge hip-hop's love of money with old- fashioned Bible-beating fundamentalism-true believers who reveal themselves with openness and truly astonishing candor, but what they reveal about our nation is most astonishing of all.

    Table of Contents

    RighteousYou'll Feel Lead

    1. Fetal Position
    2. Come as You Are
    3. Saved on the Half-Pipe
    4. In the Name of the Father
    5. Soldiers of Fortune
    6. The Ultimate Party School
    7. Evolutionary War
    8. The Last Generation

    Slouching Toward Babylon

    Acknowledgments
    Sources for Numbers

    Author

    © Justin Lane

    Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist. She is the bestselling author of One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being Oneand Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement. Her essays and features have appeared in dozens of publications including Time, The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian, and New York. Sandler has led the OpEd Project's Public Voices Fellowships at Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth, and has taught in the graduate journalism program at NYU, where she has also been a visiting scholar. She was Poynter Fellow at Yale and a fellow at MacDowell.

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    Praise

    "...an intriguing journey into a burgeoning and often contradictory phenomenon"
    -The Washington Post

    "If you have any doubt that there is a culture war that must be waged and won by secularists in America, read this book."
    -Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith

    "Compassion for her subjects and brisk writing make her increasingly alarming story go down easy."
    -Rocky Mountain News

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    • Righteous
      Righteous
      Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement
      Lauren Sandler
      9781440688416
      Ebook
      Penguin Books
      Aug 28, 2007
    • Righteous
      Righteous
      Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement
      Lauren Sandler
      9781440688416
      Ebook
      Penguin Books
      Aug 28, 2007

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