Hot Dogs
Malcolm Bull, 14 June 1990
Mine eyes have seen the glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America
by Randall Balmer.
Oxford, 246 pp., $19.95, September 1989,0 19 505117 3 Show More
by Randall Balmer.
Oxford, 246 pp., $19.95, September 1989,
In God’s Country: Travels in the Bible Belt, USA
by Douglas Kennedy.
Unwin Hyman, 240 pp., £12.95, November 1989,0 04 440423 9 Show More
by Douglas Kennedy.
Unwin Hyman, 240 pp., £12.95, November 1989,
The Divine Supermarket
by Malise Ruthven.
Chatto, 336 pp., £14.95, August 1989,0 7011 3151 9 Show More
by Malise Ruthven.
Chatto, 336 pp., £14.95, August 1989,
The Democratisation of American Christianity
by Nathan Hatch.
Yale, 312 pp., £22.50, November 1989,0 300 44470 2 Show More
by Nathan Hatch.
Yale, 312 pp., £22.50, November 1989,
Religion and 20th-Century American Intellectual Life
edited by Michael Lacey.
Cambridge/Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, 214 pp., £27.50, November 1989,0 521 37560 6 Show More
edited by Michael Lacey.
Cambridge/Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, 214 pp., £27.50, November 1989,
New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America
by Mary Farrell Bednarowski.
Indiana, 175 pp., $25, November 1989,0 253 31137 3 Show More
by Mary Farrell Bednarowski.
Indiana, 175 pp., $25, November 1989,
“... once reserved for the exotic customs of other races. Take the announcement (recorded by Randall Balmer on his visit to Calvary Chapel in Santa Ana, California) that ‘we’ll play volleyball, eat some hot dogs, and then baptise anyone who wants to identify with the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.’ How can this elicit anything but a ... ”
