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Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on August 18, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):264-266; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp044
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Bill Bright and The Campus Crusade For Christ: The Renewal Of Evangelicalism in Postwar America

Joshua Brahinsky

University of California, Santa Clara

BILL BRIGHT AND THE CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: THE RENEWAL OF EVANGELICALISM IN POSTWAR AMERICA. By John G. Turner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 304 pp. Softbound, $19.95.

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The ambivalence shines from the image on the front cover: thousands of college students fill a football stadium, many drenched in sweat and looking to the sky, demonstrating what appears as a collective sense of freedom and ecstasy, yet one energized by an appeal to extreme conservatism, individualism, and the preeminence of free markets. Their mix of long hair, beards, and other contemporary symbols would seem at home in most youth gatherings from the late 1960s onward except for the highly Christian context. This kind of gathering boldly challenges scholarly pictures of Fundamentalism as backward looking and simply . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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