Romancing God : evangelical women and inspirational fiction
Although often disparaged by scholars and pastors alike, Christian romance novels play a unique and important role in the religious lives of many evangelical women. In an ethnographic study of how and why women read evangelical romance novels, Neal interviews and surveys writers and readers and explores the texts themselves. She finds a complex religious piety among ordinary people
Print Book, English, 2006
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780807829981, 9780807856703, 0807829986, 0807856703
61253862
The history of evangelical romance
The discipline of fun
The evaluation of romance
The ministry of romantic fiction
The fashioning of faith
The romance of God