Christian punk is a surprisingly successful musical subculture and a fascinating expression of American evangelicalism. Situating Christian punk within the modern history of Christianity and the rapidly changing culture of spirituality and secularity, this book illustrates how Christian punk continues punk’s autonomous and oppositional creative practices, but from within a typically traditional evangelical morality. Analyzing straight edge Christian abstinence and punk-friendly churches, this book also focuses on gender performance within a subculture dominated by young men in a time of contested gender roles and ideologies. Critically-minded and rich in ethnographic data and insider perspectives, Christian Punk will engage scholars of contemporary evangelicalism, religion and popular music, and punk and all its related subcultures.
The book is available in PDF, epub and paperback formats, and hardback format (intended for libraries hence the cost).
The book has been reviewed by Mike Dines in vol. 9 no. 2 of the journal Punk & Post Punk, as “a courageous work, treading on the toes of punk orthodoxy and thus going against the grain of a traditional narrative of punk identity and authenticity,” and by Mark Jennings in vol. 38, no. 2 of the Journal of Contemporary Religion.
Bloomsbury USA / Bloomsbury UK / Bloomsbury Australia
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Ibrahim Abraham 
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